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On December 16th, 2014 with 280 comments
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On November 21st, 2013 with 226 comments
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On November 19th, 2013 with 237 comments
An anonymous reader writes "TurboTax from Intuit and H&R Block's own tax package have been perennial mainstays for U.S. citizens trying to use software to...
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On July 31st, 2013 with 385 comments
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On May 31st, 2013 with 656 comments
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On April 23rd, 2013 with 203 comments
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On October 24th, 2012 with 278 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Neal Stephenson's 1999 Cryptonomicon was a great yarn. It was also a thoroughly enjoyable (and too short) romp through some...
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On September 11th, 2012 with 302 comments
New submitter Covalent writes "I'm a science teacher and have, over the years, accumulated a number of lost graphing calculators (mostly TI-83s). After trying...
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On August 9th, 2012 with 1086 comments
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On June 24th, 2012 with 265 comments
An anonymous reader writes "As a calculus professor for a small undergraduate institution, I normally lecture students who are majoring in the natural (or...
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On June 1st, 2012 with 416 comments
First time accepted submitter badmojo17 writes "After achieving her lifelong dream of becoming a public school math teacher, my wife has found the profession...
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On September 24th, 2011 with 393 comments
dotancohen writes "Although the telephone has the 1-2-3 key on the top row, most calculators and keyboards have 7-8-9 on the top row. Switching between the two...
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On August 6th, 2011 with 514 comments
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On June 28th, 2010 with 1186 comments
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On June 24th, 2010 with 279 comments
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On June 23rd, 2010 with 105 comments
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On May 22nd, 2010 with 434 comments
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On April 3rd, 2010 with 467 comments
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On February 8th, 2009 with 630 comments
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On June 4th, 2008 with 853 comments
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On December 16th, 2007 with 469 comments
Beetle B. writes "An argument has arisen over whether Wikipedia should allow pages that provide proofs for mathematical theorems (such as this one).
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On September 5th, 2007 with 260 comments
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On January 25th, 2007 with 724 comments
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On January 13th, 2007 with 1487 comments
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On October 16th, 2005 with 1965 comments
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On May 28th, 2005 with 153 comments
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