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I've come to the retrospective conclusion decades after educational abuse that professors like this are more interested in showboating their mathematics knowledge than drive students to find good pragmatic solutions.

i.e. I know this super complex answer in which is it happens to be the only purely accurate thing. Can you guess it? vs what I would like to see which is: here are the foundational concepts, bring them all together and arrive at the naturally correct conclusion demonstrating your knowledge and understanding

>>smarkl+(OP)
Professors?

This post was written by an undergraduate student.

A professor would use that as a teaching opportunity to discuss the folly of relying on floating point numbers.