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Christopher Creutzig wrote: Computing numbers isn't math. Gaining insight into abstract structures is math. Understanding...the process to compute...numbers...is one specific example of math.

Hi Christopher,
Very interesting, thank you! So you'd say it's not math unless the understanding is present?
That wasn't meant to be a description of "math" so much as a description of the process many people have for beginning their understanding of it. The point I was trying to make was that some forms of understanding often come after proficiency in the process.

I think much of the stuff that is taught in "math" classes in school, would be called arithmetic by mathematicians. But I don't know exactly where arithmetic becomes algebra.

Edit: I looked it up: As soon as symbols like x and y are used, it becomes algebra.

But still, using the Pythagorean theorem and algebra to calculate something, is not as mathematical as proving the Pythagorean theorem.