• gargamel@leminal.space
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    1 month ago

    8+8 and 8X2 are literally the exact same thing, why did they feel the need to make that an extra step?

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      1 month ago

      Probably because they were forced to memorize times tables, but not arithmetic so they wanted to show where they are leveraging that memorization from