My Mathematical Style
A student who writes 15/7 as a repeating decimal calls it their personal style.
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[Paper: 7x + 1 = 16; 7x = 15; x = 2.142857 (repeating)] Teacher: "Why did you convert these coefficients to repeating decimals? You could have just left them as fractions." Student: "What can I say? That's my style."
Teacher: "Your 'style' is hard to distinguish from 'a lack of necessary competencies.'" Student: "Yeah, that ambiguity is part of my style, too."