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My childhood died since the first 100 points
Since the expectation to be the master of mathematics
Since I started to study numbers
Though I hate math
Especially my math teachers
I build up my rules of calculation
Now I become another math teacher
Punish the students with wrong answers

Work so hard in subtraction
Until my son learns to plus himself
He starts to minus me every night
We stop arguing about mythology to solve questions
He tears the textbooks which I wrote
I throw his resume away from my world
He learns to program and does it well
Repeat proofs to be my son unconsciously
A question without answers indeed
It is the secret I’ll never tell

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我的童年死於一張一百分考卷
死在一聲”奇才”的讚美
從此我開始研究數字
儘管討厭數學
更討厭所有的數學老師
我建立一套公式法則
減法教學
處罰寫錯答案的學生
直到兒子學會加法
每晚減去一吋的我
我們不再爭論解題方法
他撕爛我寫的教科書
而我棄他的履歷作為答案
他開始專研程序語法
反覆驗證我們的血緣關係
這是我永遠不會告訴他的
無解習題