• smeg
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    5 hours ago

    Mental arithmetic is all little tricks and shortcuts. If the answer is right then there’s no wrong way to do it, and maths is one of the few places where answers are right or wrong with no damn maybes!

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      56 minutes ago

      Unless you consider probabilities. That’s a very strange field—you can’t objectively verify it.

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      2 hours ago

      Unsolved problems do not all fall into binary outcomes. They can be independent of axioms (the set of assumptions used to construct a proof).

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        1 hour ago

        I like your funny words, mathemagic man

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      3 hours ago

      Well, there are certainly wrong ways to arrive at the answer, e.g. calculating 2+2 by multiplying both numbers still gets you 4 but that is the wrong way to get there. That doesn’t apply to any of the methods in the post though.