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Your children may be mathematicians

They spend most of their free time alone with their maths

They have few real friends, but talk extensively to online friends about maths

Teachers say the child has a keen interest in maths, almost to the exclusion of all other subjects

They're doing maths so much it affects their sleeping habits

They use the language of maths with terms such as "pi" (pronounced pi), Euler, Function, lambda, axiom, proof, Galois (refers to a field rather than cigs),

Members of the Anonymous Maths group refer to their attacks as attacks

They refer to themselves and their friends as mathematicians or mathmos

They have multiple email addresses

They have an odd-sounding nickname (famous ones include Bourbaki)

Their computer has an app called matlab which is used to access equations which have letters that are numbers

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