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I posted this to the wrong blog but you guys asked questions so I’m leaving it (also because it has an amusing story about my brother)

To be honest all the discussions of math in this series (Temeraire) are just the best thing EVER. The scene at the fundraiser party where some of the human guests were asking him really easy math questions (and he assumed it was a party game and provided them with what he thought was a similarly easy math question dealing with the Pythagorean theorem) reminded me SO MUCH of my brother. The way I remember the story is that he was brought in for a short interview with the principle before enrolling in our school for kindergarten. The principle (who, to be fair, had no understanding of children) was told that my brother had some math skills and he tested this by asking some simple questions. My brother answered him easily and, totally innocently, asked why he was needed to provide these answers because shouldn’t the principle already know them?