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Clyde Tombaugh

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

Teen

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The speaker is surprised that young people today wouldn’t choose to learn something as challenging as trigonometry just because they enjoy it. He contrasts this by sharing that he personally found pleasure in studying it during his youth.

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