Revisionism of the nerds

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In ads aimed at techno-geeks, can you play on their nostalgia for high-school math class?

Maybe not, to judge by an online poll conducted by Slashdot.org, whose Web site bills itself as “News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.” The poll asked respondents to say which class in high school was their favorite. Science came in first (with 27 percent of the vote at last count), but “lunch” edged out math (21 percent to 20 percent).

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