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ArsThaumaturgis
Since: Nov, 2011
17th Apr, 2022 08:42:10 AM
Maths-specific Techno Babble, perhaps?
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One common trope in manga and anime is that a student, usually a high school student, is getting tutoring for tests.
One person, usually a fellow student, will sit with the tutee and say something like "So here, you replace X with 3..." or "So if the angle is acute, the result will be..." Basically super vague stuff and no clear math problem.