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Hm. 
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Like, literally, wow. I am so grateful that my maths book didn't make me resolve a fraction with repeated quadratic factors. It only showed me one and asked me to expand it into the form used to evaluate it. I inputted it into Wolfram Alpha to find out what the answer happened to be and it was huge. On Monday I start proofs by maths induction.