• exocrinous@startrek.website
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      11 months ago

      I calculated it in my head without memorising all the multiplication tables. I just realised that 7*3.5 is equal to (7*5+7*2)/2. And that 49/2 is equal to 40/2+9/2. Easy peasy. This is why I failed second grade math, because multiplication tables are only useful for doing operations a few seconds faster.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah but that doesn’t work when you need it most on “The Price is Right”.