or compare what certain individuals are saying, see if your knowledge syncs up and rings true, and then start trusting what they say in other areas nothing on a forum should be taken as gospel, though, you're right... but it's still nice to have different theories floating around.
I recently found a math site with formula generator while I was in STATS class. Maybe that something you can toy around with on the math end.
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