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Don't Even Get Me Started On The Usefulness Of Learning How To Find The Area Of A Trapezoid (lemmy.ml)

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13 Completely Useless Things We Were Taught in School

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[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

When I was an intern, I had a boss that made me calculate the volume of a large, round, but oddly shaped tank with calculus. Insisted I used calculus for some reason.