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It has nothing to do with calculus, or math at all.

My natural reaction to the bat and ball problem was to parse the problem statement verbally and search for a plausible answer among the tokens. The algorithm retrieved "USD$1", and then a second background process took over and said "wait, that sounds a little bit too right". It might have taken me full 5 seconds before I realizes I had to switch to math_mode!!!



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