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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Holy shit.

Is that not how “normal” people do math in their head? How do they do it?

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I have no idea how normal people do it but I do

9+7

One shy of 10+7

One shy of 17

16

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How do they do it?

I assume they just don't. For my mom at least, she absolutely will not apply mental effort to anything that doesn't strictly require it. If a mental task can be offloaded to someone or something else, she'll do that instead, every time.