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It was a regular Tuesday morning when I decided to impress my friends with my incredible math skills. Armed with nothing but a calculator app and a dangerously strong cup of coffee, I challenged everyone to a “Fast Math” competition. The goal? Solve as many addition problems as possible in one minute. The room filled with laughter as we whooped and hollered, and vainly I thought, “I’ve got this!” The timer started, and I furiously tapped away. After a whirlwind of numbers, I triumphantly declared I’d calculated a stellar 36 sums when the timer buzzed.
The laughter turned into gasps as my friends checked their answers. Amidst the chaos, I realized I didn’t add anything correctly; I had somehow turned 12 + 15 into a deeply philosophical 57. I spent the next 20 minutes convincing everyone that my “fast math” was actually a new revolutionary approach to quantum adding – which, spoiler alert, doesn’t actually exist.
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You know, what if they changed it yesterday
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Math update before chess 2 😭
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There’s lots of fanfiction with Chess. The original authors have been very quiet about the release of Chess 2.0 – I think waiting for it is like waiting for GTA 6 or the Winds Of Winter.
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They gotta release it quick before it turns into the halflife fanbase. Look at what half-life 3 is doing to them.
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HL3 confirmed!!!
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I think the internal project name for chess 2.0 is shogi.
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If you add one day for the first square of a chess board, two days for the second square, four days for the third square, and so on for all 64 squares, and you add them all together, you will get about half the time it will take GRRM to finish writing Winds of Winter.
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we actually already got chess 2 https://youtu.be/mcivL8u176Y
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Math update before GTA 6
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everything will happen before gta6 😓
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Better ask chat gpt
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Did you update your calculator app? If not you should maybe google 6÷2 to be sure.
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My calculator says 6÷2 is 2÷6
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Is it dyslexic?
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For anyone unsure, I googled it. Dyslexia is a contidion where pleope read things wackbards.
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Mine says ÷(6,2)
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00000110 >>
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Just making sure dawg
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You never know when the math will suddenly sneak up on you and change the outcome it has always been
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Not but if you have horrible focus/short term memory, components of an easy and automatic process might get jumbled up in your brain once you loose focus and enter auto-pilot. You might for example think 6/2 = 3. But your brain processes 6&2&3, making it more vulnerable to writing for example 2 instead of 3. As someone with adhd doing data science, i can tell you that this can happen if you’re having an unlucky day. Writing down steps of a process that sometimes can cause slip-ups helps you make sure that those brain farts don’t happen
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When i worked at a cashier, I would regularly use the caculator as a way to store the value I needed to charge, so even if the purchase was just 20 + 3, i would do the sum in the calculator, so I didn’t forget the result by the time the customer gave me the money and I had to give the change (we had no fancy system or register, just a calculator and a drawer with cash)
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omg you’re the guy who the teachers said would try to stiff us, as a reason to learn arithmetic (since we obviously wouldn’t be carrying a calculator in our pockets)
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They were also the same one that would hand us back more change than we paid. I had that happen and the cashier had to call a manager because they thought I was trying to rip them off by giving money back.
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How often do you check that the taxes were calculated correctly? I would never know if stores were stealing my pennies.
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thinking back to when I bought two cheesesteaks from a food truck in DC for $15 and I handed the lady a $20 and was told there’s no change bc tax like sure lady… …under no circumstances am I confronting her about it tho lol (I live in Delaware so sales tax is a rarity for me)
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hehehehe brain farts
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I have multiple sclerosis and my brain is a jumbled mess that constantly jump to the wrong conclusions out of “logic”. Turns out my brain has its own idea of what is logical. This stupid illness literally made me dumber because I can’t focus long enough without tracing off 😂 I triple check everything I do at work because i never know.
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Just like trains, math is wildly unpredictable
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Just watch for update logs or patch notes. Very unlikely for something like 6/2 to be changed though. Even if it is bugged, at this point it’s a feature.
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I’m an engineer. I did this during exams just because it wasn’t worth risking points off the exam in case I made a blunder. It’s a safety net
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Also an engineer. I did this during exams and still do it. Sometimes it’s just force of habit. I do a bunch of calculations and then go “ok and we divide that by two…” even though it’s obvious what the answer is. My brain was just on autopilot for the calculation steps, because for that particular equation, I always do the same steps, and it often doesn’t work out with nice convenient numbers.
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Also an engineer. The number of times ive done 12+12 or 24/2 on a calculator because its a part of whatever else im doing and i want all calculations to run through the calculator (partially just to record where i am in a list) is too high.
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I do it in my head then do it again with a calculator, because it’s absolutely the simple math that I would fuck up. And whats worse, using a calculator to do simple math or submitting something with an error in the simple math?
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im nearly positive ive done this just cause my mind wasnt in math mode. my keyboard for some reason has a cal button. automatically opens a calculator.
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I have mental issues. I’ll do things like 6×12 like this: 6 x 10 = 60 6 x 2 = 12 60 + 12 = 72. Then I punch it into a calculator just in case I dumbed myself too much while working it through. I don’t trust myself or my methods.
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I’m an engineer ten years in. Still check all my math in excel.
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100% fair. Exams aren’t the place to test mental math confidence 😅
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Also, we don’t know the whole math problem. Maybe she did some algebra and got this equation 24\*0.25/2\*0.55 = x, which will display 6/2=3 at one point.
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Thank god. Also an engineer, I thought I was the only one.
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Its scary that this is my exact reason for using a calculator when i just finished mentally mathing the math
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There have been times when my brain goes into full gaslighting mode and says, “Are you sure?” Then I have to double check. Mostly with spelling, but it’s happened with math.
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Math student here. Completely understandable. One time we had a lecture on a specific theorem proof that the professor (he’s was like 70, wrote bunch of books and stuff) was showing us on the blackboard and we (the professor and like 30 math students) kept getting a wrong answer for an hour straight. Went back and forth through the whole thing like 5 times… Turns out 1/2 * 1/2 isn’t equal to 1.
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Engineer here, same issues. That’s why I use a calculator to double check my numbers. Our brains are good at big picture analysis, and can absolutely mess up little calculations like that. I heard a company blew up a satellite one time because they forgot a negative sign somewhere, or messed up in converting from imperial to metric system.
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Yeah when Im in calculator mode Im just gonna calc everything not switch modes back to mental math even for the easiest math
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Yep, do this shit all the time in math classes. I’m not going to solve an entire problem in diffeq and then not get the correct answer because I fuck up adding 8 and 7 like a dumbass.
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Quick maffs
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2+2=4
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Quik maas
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Man’s not hot!
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