There’s been some debate, but for sure, kids today get nothing like this question from my 1980 Physics paper (reproduced from memory, so there may be some insignificant errors).
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Again from memory, wasn’t this the one that caused controversy due to the use of an approximation in the 53rd term trivializing the result.
[...] – in September I made this little joke about the dumbing down of education standards in the UK; a tension reliever from the continuous and [...]