But maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye. As soon as I saw the math problem, I knew there were probably tricks involved, because it seemed Too Easy. I also knew that if I attempted to solve it actively in this article, no one would ever take me seriously again, because my math abilities are abysmal. I would be laughed out of grad school, probably. Or something.
Thus, I turned to instructional videos from the interwebs. Why? Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned from the interwebs, it’s that if you’re having a problem with something — anything — someone else is probably also having a problem with it… and accordingly, they’ve probably gone ahead and figured it out, making an instructional video documenting their solution as they went. So, yeah — I’ve been watching other people do math all morning. It’s been great.
