12th October 2016, 7:10 AM
So you're telling ABF to hold his finger and his thumb in the shape of an L? ABF, don't do it, or you might as well be walking on the sun for all the strange looks you'll be getting.
I never memorized either the addition or multiplication tables. I still have to do basic arithmetic very slowly in my head every time. My proudest moment was realizing I can get any multiple of 9 just by adding to the 10's slot and subtracting from the 1's slot. I do machines, and use another machine to do the math I need for doing machines.
I never memorized either the addition or multiplication tables. I still have to do basic arithmetic very slowly in my head every time. My proudest moment was realizing I can get any multiple of 9 just by adding to the 10's slot and subtracting from the 1's slot. I do machines, and use another machine to do the math I need for doing machines.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)