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Math is not designed to make you think.  It’s actually better suited to making you think about less.  Ancient Zen masters would use the concentrating powers of math to enhance meditation by clearing the mind of everything except for an apparently unsolvable math problem.  Of course, thanks to the effort of an international team of anthropologists, today we know that the math problems were quite easy.  Ancient Zen masters simply never learned how to count.

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