[hinckley buzzard]

learned in high-level math classes: all measurement is done from a base: be it a point, line, or plane

High level math? I learned that doing carpentry.

[ClaudiusI]

Well it’s high-level because it takes a REAL long time before they begin to teach you how math relates to the real world. :)

I’m actually not kidding in this respect either, in my case it wasn’t until a post-calculus course called Linear Algebra that we even defined what math actually was.