187. Space objects evenly by adding “1”

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There's a good reason algebra is the first advanced math subject taught after arithmetic. Algebra and the notation it uses is the language of all higher mathematics; if you don't understand it, you're not going to understand what follows. Get yourself an elementary algebra text and start reading it. Even if you don't finish the book, you'll have learned a bit about the notation and the rules that govern it.

Remember too that there are lots of people here, myself included, who can help you when you have questions or need clarification.

I appreciate the offer. I love math. I can read the formula well enough to recite it, but it turns to a jumbled mess in my brain when I try to solve. My attention deficit manifests in such a way that I can usually work out how a mechanism is made by watching it operate, but can't follow the math that it's based on. It makes car & appliance repair relatively easy for me, but diagnosis difficult.

Neil