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I think you overestimate the capabililties of most people.

• jjoonathan 11y ago
  16x180 ... = 288 I think he overestimates the capabilities of himself. He also misidentified the tricky part of the problem as multiplication and addition. Holding intermediate place values is far more likely to cause issues, as we can see from his mistake. If we allow for simple mistakes, everyone here can do that multiplication in their head without issue. But that was babuskov's exact point. Calculators help with silly mistakes of this sort and they're present nearly everywhere.
  • Cyph0n 11y ago
    I was calculating 18 * 16. For some reason I did not refer back to OP. The approach is similar however. I agree: holding values is quite difficult in many cases, but the whole discussion is about this example specifically. You only need to remember 3 values in this case, which should be easy for most people. And no I do not overestimate myself. I usually suffer from imposter syndrome.