extreme geekery
This article confuses me a bit. Simply because I think it would take longer than 11 seconds to look at all the numbers in a 100 digit number. let alone start doing calculations on it.
This reminds me of a math game that I read about in the hit book: The curious incident of the dog in the night time. In this book the main character, an autistic boy, does cubes in his head to pass the time. (3 cubed = 3*3*3)
so I started doing this during my biweekly drives from New Haven to Manchester. It’s actually pretty fun. You develop all sorts of clever tricks for multiplying and squaring numbers.
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