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What has happened to beauty in math? The beauty derivesfrom the simplicity and elegance. That has been lost in theproliferation of extraneous terminology, meant to make things “moreconceptual”, from early endless excursions with “place value” to absurdvariations on algorithms, to gummy descriptions of everything usingcontortions of language, rather than the language of mathematics itself.

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