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How about doing math in your head? If I couldn't visualize the actual numbers I don't think I could do it at all.
by smabie 6y ago
How about doing math in your head? If I couldn't visualize the actual numbers I don't think I could do it at all.
- di4na 6y agoSame, tbh i can't really. Usually maths end up on a whiteboard or paper.
- yencabulator 6y agoI definitely don't "see a number" in front of me. There is some sort of shortcut memory that says 7 * 6=42, of course. For massaging an equation into the desired form, I see its "shape" (abstract from the numbers, like we had to in school with variables) and know what changes of shape are desirable. More complex math, let's say, 700 * 13, I do in my head pretty much like those equations; shuffle it to be 7 * (10+3) * 100, (7 * 10 + 7 * 3) * 100, etc. In no part of that do I see the figure of the number seven; there's a "slot" that's a concept of seven, but it's not the shape of the drawn number.