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This Professor Can ‘Spit a 16’ and Then Find Its Square Root
September 15, 2026
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This Professor Can ‘Spit a 16’ and Then Find Its Square Root
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This Professor Can ‘Spit a 16’ and Then Find Its Square Root
It is safe to say that few members of the math faculty get asked the kind of question that Peter M. Plourde did at the start of a recent algebra class here at Northeastern University.
