>>13823398Performing calculations? Never. It will never be elementary.
Understanding the geometry involved? Could be learned as a child.
Basically this. The problem is that most parents don't know, and thus cannot pass on information to their children such that it becomes a trivial concept later in life.
It ultimately becomes about understanding how things affect other things. Whether you need to put a number on it is a different story.
sqrt(2) is easy to understand, but impossible to fully write down, but once you know what it is, you can easily get an approximation if you need to. Lots of shit is like this, ultimately.
If we genuinely want the world to be functional, we need to accept that algorithms, like calculus, are instruments, and are not goals. Being the best at calculus, better than any other human is a goal, but it kind of sucks as a goal and results in enormous deathbed regrets, which tends to make the entire experience not really worth it.
