You can only use a spatula to flip a top section of pancakes, and the math problem is to sort the stack in as few flips as possible.

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Sean Penn, some sort of math professor with a bad ticker, gets the heart of the dead man, at which point he begins to follow around the grieving widow (Naomi Watts).

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We used to rank at the top, and now we're sort of in the middle of the pack when it comes to math and science performance.

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