>>>>>When you say "do the math", what do you have in mind?
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>>>>>Set theory? General topology? Functional analysis? Differential geometry? Game theory? Queue theory? Euclidean geometry? Any other geometry? Trigonometry? Complex analysis? Theory of differential equations? Number theory? Boolean algebra? Fuzzy logic? Probability? Galois groups? Field theory? Vector spaces? Tensors? Linear algebra?
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>>>>Yes.
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>>>Yet another individuum from whom the whole science of psychology extracts a three-letter response. I should have tried a larger challenge - maybe, sexology, by means of which we may get a four-letter response. Next time, then.
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>>You phrased the question, with the infamous quotes, as "do the math" which is a very specific phrase. To anyone in the US that means to add things and come up with a conclusion. Not really all that much to it. I don't think anyone took it as you seriously looking for something deep. I would think that the fact that some of us took it lightly really shouldn't bother you much.
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>Arithmetic would be a better word than addition. For instance, "The bailout proposal is for $700 billion, there are 300 million Americans, do the math" -- that would be division.
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>I have no idea what Dragan was on about with differential equations, vector spaces, etc. other than probably amusing himself.

That's how I took it, and I thought I responded in kind. Didn't know it was such a deep subject.