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Brahmagupta you petulant child! Knowledge often tends to be passed on to future generations without leaving a trail to its origin. Glad to hear about you zeroing in on the art of hastaprayoga at such a tender age. Keep mastering those marmashastras and you might one day decimate the old ways of thinking and reshape the world as we know.

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The home-schooled daughter of an Indian inventor told me about long division.

I attended yoga classes at my local Jewish Community Center, but at first I fell asleep.

My grandmother was afraid of meditation - she thought that if you emptied your mind, the (Christian) devil would come in.

But my mother practiced it regularly and taught me how.

I had a secular upbringing, though. The only deity she disliked was...Baal.

The point is, there's no reason to assume I found out about calculating square roots or anything else the same way as most people.

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