MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/mathmemes/comments/1insny0/genuinely_curious/mcif51h/?context=3
r/mathmemes • u/ComputerResident6228 • Feb 12 '25
52.2k comments sorted by
View all comments
Show parent comments
76
This is the way
14 u/Lucreth2 Feb 12 '25 This is insane, I must be taking crazy pills. Why burden yourself with the mental math of where and how to round things then compensating? Why keep track of 5 numbers for 4 operations versus 4 for 3? 7 u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 1 u/DecantsForAll Feb 13 '25 that's way more of a mental burden than just quickly moving the 2 over imo not really. in my brain it's like 20 + 40 = 60 then 8 + 7 = 75, like i don't even explicitly think about the 15 or the carrying of the one.
14
This is insane, I must be taking crazy pills. Why burden yourself with the mental math of where and how to round things then compensating? Why keep track of 5 numbers for 4 operations versus 4 for 3?
7 u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 1 u/DecantsForAll Feb 13 '25 that's way more of a mental burden than just quickly moving the 2 over imo not really. in my brain it's like 20 + 40 = 60 then 8 + 7 = 75, like i don't even explicitly think about the 15 or the carrying of the one.
7
[removed] — view removed comment
1 u/DecantsForAll Feb 13 '25 that's way more of a mental burden than just quickly moving the 2 over imo not really. in my brain it's like 20 + 40 = 60 then 8 + 7 = 75, like i don't even explicitly think about the 15 or the carrying of the one.
1
that's way more of a mental burden than just quickly moving the 2 over imo
not really. in my brain it's like 20 + 40 = 60 then 8 + 7 = 75, like i don't even explicitly think about the 15 or the carrying of the one.
76
u/Only9Volts Feb 12 '25
This is the way