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Ok, so college algebra at my local community college is 5 hours a week for a sixteen week semester, and let’s approximately double that time for homework/out of class study/whatever. That’s 160 hours to get through high school minimum math, minus geometry. Precalculus is a four hour/week class, so that’s 96 hours. So for everything up to but not including calculus that’s 256 hours, towards the high side of Claude’s estimate. If we assume that calculus is approximately the same amount as getting ready for it, we’ve blown Claude’s estimate out of the water. But, Claude’s estimate seems reasonably accurate for solely class time, so that’s probably what it counted.
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