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  2. Mental calculation - Wikipedia

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    result: 9; Add 5 + 9 = 14 so 4 is placed on the left side of the result and carry the 1. result: 49; Similarly add 7 + 5 = 12, then add the carried 1 to get 13. Place 3 to the result and carry the 1. result: 349; Add the carried 1 to the highest valued digit in the multiplier, 7 + 1 = 8, and copy to the result to finish. Final product of 759 × ...

  3. Trachtenberg system - Wikipedia

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    In this same way the tables for subtracting digits from 10 or 9 are to be memorized. And whenever the rule calls for adding half of the neighbor, always add 5 if the current digit is odd. This makes up for dropping 0.5 in the next digit's calculation.

  4. Josephus problem - Wikipedia

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    Such games are used to pick out a person from a group, e.g. eeny, meeny, miny, moe. A drawing for the Josephus problem sequence for 500 people and skipping value of 6. The horizontal axis is the number of the person. The vertical axis (top to bottom) is time (the number of cycle). A live person is drawn as green, a dead one is drawn as black. [1]

  5. 10 Hard Math Problems That Even the Smartest People in the ...

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    Even numbers are always 0, 2, or 4 more than a multiple of 6, while odd numbers are always 1, 3, or 5 more than a multiple of 6. Well, one of those three possibilities for odd numbers causes an issue.

  6. Scott Flansburg - Wikipedia

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    Scott Flansburg developed a mental math program called 'The Human Calculator. [9] ' Scott's course provides a step-by-step guide to becoming 'A Human Calculator.' Scott created this course to help people master mental mathematics. The training covers the unknown and hidden patterns behind numbers and how they work in our daily life.

  7. Calculator - Wikipedia

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    The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B (popularly termed The Bowmar Brain), measuring 5.2 by 3.0 by 1.5 inches (132 mm × 76 mm × 38 mm), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for US$240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first ...

  8. Mental calculator - Wikipedia

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    A mental calculator or human calculator is a person with a prodigious ability in some area of mental calculation (such as adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing large numbers). In 2005, a group of researchers led by Michael W. O'Boyle, an American psychologist previously working in Australia and now at Texas Tech University , has used MRI ...

  9. Windows Calculator - Wikipedia

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    A simple arithmetic calculator was first included with Windows 1.0. [5]In Windows 3.0, a scientific mode was added, which included exponents and roots, logarithms, factorial-based functions, trigonometry (supports radian, degree and gradians angles), base conversions (2, 8, 10, 16), logic operations, statistical functions such as single variable statistics and linear regression.