off topic but please forgive me me and answer

[Patrick Maupin]

On Apr 3, 8:00 am, superpollo <ute... at esempio.net> wrote:
> > sorry if I misunderstood.
>
> no no you understood prfectly *but* the thing is i am a regular in an
> italian language math ng which is haunted by a crackpot who insists that
> 1/2 * 1/2 cannot be 1/4, "because multiplication means getting bigger",
> so i took a semi-serious stance and made a few posts as a statistical
> tentative to "convince" said crackpot that the world is not going crazy
> (but maybe he is)

If I read correctly (using my non-existent Italian, and heavily
relying on my tiny bit of Spanish and a lot of google translate), it
appears that you are what I would call a high-school math/science
teacher, who takes students to competitions?

Regards,
Pat