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  • ono@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Five-year-olds must be pretty advanced in the 24th century.

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      10 months ago

      In 24th century Starfleet, calculus was taught to children around age ten or older. On the USS Enterprise-D, Harry Bernard hated calculus, despite the fact that his father told him everyone needed a basic understanding of it. (TNG: “When The Bough Breaks”)

      • Memory Alpha page on Calculus
      • Smoke@beehaw.org
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        10 months ago

        his father told him everyone needed a basic understanding of it.

        Three hundred years later and some things never change.