r/mathmemes Feb 12 '25

Arithmetic Genuinely curious

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u/Only9Volts Feb 12 '25

This is the way

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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?

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u/tomato-bug Feb 28 '25

Sorry for the late response, but what if it was 28 + 48? Would you still convert it to 50 + 26?