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The panzer has spoken (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, single digit percentages are easy. If it helps, move your decimal to the right so 9% becomes 90%. You can probably calculate 90% of 3 because you can do 10% and subtract it and get 2.7. Now move your decimal back to the left and you get 9% of 3 which is 0.27. You can do the same with higher percentages once you learn to break them in to 10% pieces.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'd.. probably use the calculator app before I do all this mental gymnastics

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is not mental gymnastics.

This is a coherent method and makes a lot of sense.

Mental gymnastics is when someone has to lie to themselves to make a point that isn't correct. Like when people argue that trump was a good president because they can list several good things he did.

Or when people claim something is mental gymnastics when it's actually called maths.