Maybe you number skills are fading because you waste your time and energy on pointless computations. Maybe they just fade with time…
Maybe you number skills are fading because you waste your time and energy on pointless computations. Maybe they just fade with time…
deur@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Your brain is weirdly unhappy with the concept of other brains doing math. Nice!
The brainpower involved in mental math is just real-time factorization and otherwise general application of the rules of arithmatic. It’s no waste, it’s just a well practiced set of pathways that take annoying math and make it friendly. It takes at most 2 seconds to know if it’s time to use a calculator.