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Any tips of how to make mathematical mental calculations fast in my brain?
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2+2 is 5, minus 1 dats 4 quik mafs
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>>17009317
Just pick a random number and assume it's the answer.
This is the fastest possible method, however it does add some error
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>>17009317
Are you a Chinese factory worker? You can just study math and naturally get faster thanks to deeper understanding and fluency with the language.
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>>17009317
Surely you have looked at factors? I find factoring is often an easy way to make seemingly annoying mental calculations simple.
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It depends on your current level, and what kind of calculations you're trying to do (Multiplication? Division? Percentages?). If you don't know your times tables that's a good place to start.

However, if you know your times tables and are trying to get better at calculations like:
31 x 24
Mentally, you break the problem into pieces by grouping. 31x24=30×24+1×24=10×3×24+24=10×72+24=720+24=744

With practice you can perform these steps very quickly but it takes time to become proficient
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>>17009317
yeah just memorize the answer to every problem
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>>17009317
the trick to doing penny math fast in your head after a long weekend of drinking

23x145 --> 23x150 --> 20x150 --> 3000
(3x150) - (23x5)
335 + 3000
3335

The jews dont want you to know this secret
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I know of the trachtenberg system and Sonoran, both for quick mental math but I never learned it, just researched it. Would like to know the way to pass calculus.
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>>17010527
>Would like to know the way to pass calculus.
Is that a question or a statement.
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>>17009323
>,
No.
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>>17009356
30 * 20 + 30 * 4 + 1 * 20 + 1 * 4.

600 + 120 + 20 + 4.
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>>17009317
Training
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>>17009325
Wouldn't it be quicker just to pick the same number every time?
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>>17009317
get a nintendo ds and do those brain training games. brain age, big brain academy, something like that
when I was doing my masters I felt my mental math atrophy (at least compared to where it was at the end of high school and first couple of years of university) and I started doing those daily and I saw a very noticeable improvement when in my academic work, which was less math intensive, because so much of it was abstracted, but still benefited from it (computer graphics)
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>>17009356
>31*24
just approximate as 30*25
but 25*4 = 100 and 30 = 28 + 2
so 30*25 = 28*25 + 2*25 = 700 + 50
24*31 is approximately 750. but you know it must end in a 4, so just fuck around and make it 744.
why 744 and not 754? because 1/31 < 1/24, meaning the 1 you added to 24 is more than the 1 you took from 31; so 750 is larger than the true value since you inflated it
so decrease down to 744. am i right? i bet i'm right.
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>>17009317
One neuron in the prefrontal cortex is capable of about 3 petaflops, just think better. Siphon some of that "consciousness" and use it for math instead
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>>17011729
No, my mental random number generator is extremely efficient. I just always generate 3.
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>>17013654
Stop lying
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>>17014058
No



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