An elementary-school math teacher silently paces his classroom in a pin-striped stockbroker shirt, his mouth full of braces. All around him, tiny students with pencils in hand struggle over puzzles at their desks.
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The Babylonians knew their mathematics thousands of years before the Europeans.
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