Please warn me if my rewrite of this /r/eli5 comment doesn't answer your bolded question. It helps to get rid of the standard trappings of the problem. The problem beneath is mathematically the same, ...

I reformat the 2nd most upvoted answer with MathJax beneath, from Reddit. sjets3 14.1k points 7 months ago Imagine you are watching a movie. The first number is how the person in the movie is moving....

Feel free to copy and paste my rewrite of these 2 r/ELI5 posts. By user cambridge_ms, 2013 Nov 15 When you multiply a number by itself a few times, you can express that number in terms of an ...

I reformat the most upvoted answer (also my favorite) with MathJax beneath, from Reddit. Zerotan 42.2k points 7 months ago Repost from 2 years back: I give you three \$20 notes: $+3 × +20 =$ ...