About the feeling of power

[pier4r]

In another thread I saw mentioned a great story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power

(text: https://urbigenous.net/library/power.html )

On twitter I try to follow interesting accounts that post problems of recreational mathematics or the like. One of those is: https://twitter.com/mathisstillfun (yes sometimes there are those "IQ" questions that I find not too appealing, but the rest is recreational math)

Now there is an account that is solving a lot of those questions symbolically with... python.

Example: https://twitter.com/Premium_Index/status...XzBvd2J3bA

Now nothing wrong with doing that to learn python (or a python library), or to use it as a confirmation for one's attempt (a sort of double check) or to simply keep oneself able to write python code every now and then. (one could do the same with the HP 50g and its symbolical library, or with CAS from parisse and so on)

Anyway doing it over and over (and the user is doing it over and over) really feels like "let me forget everything and just press a button". Then again one could argue the same when one uses a calculator to solve a numerical formula rather than crunching the numbers oneself.