three is the first number that starts to cause problems.
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A bit random no?
If it bothers your OCD, think of it more as (7x3)+(10x3)=17x3=51
This is how I have always calculated in my head. It used to drive my mom and my teachers crazy when they asked me to verbalize my calculations. It was like I was hurting them somehow. I never understood why.
Dude/ Dudette that's worse. 7x3=21, 10x3=30, 21+30=~~492~~ 51
That does less insane to the membrane
I see them as the same except that your way illustrates what his parentheses are doing.
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I think it helps to remember that 3 times 7 is 21. When I think about that it looks less wrong.
It's the stupid seven multiplication table. Whatever glitch in human software makes it look so much less intuitive than all the others messes with so many other things that should be easy. I swear I struggle every time I have to look at it. I had to double check seven times three multiple times right now.
I don't think that actually helps, because it's all vibes. 51 looks prime, because of no reason at all, and absolutely nothing looks like it should be divisible by 17, again, because raisins.
Knowing why it's true doesn't make it look right.
But I can wrap my head around that 51 is divisible by seventeen because of 21 and seven plus something that deals with the remaining 30 somewhere.
I know that's not how it works, but as you say it fixes my vibes when I see the 21 hiding inside the 51.
I'll say this: the other thing that makes this one a hard pill to swallow is that 17 looks way too big, and my vibes fix doesn't address that, but hey.
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If there’s a number that’s the most oddball in the multiplication table, it’s 7.
It’s a prime number that doesn’t share any common divisors with 10, and isn’t adjacent to a divisor of 10 either.
2 and 5 are common divisors of 10, so they’re piece of cake.
3 is so small and close to 2, so it’s not too difficult to get.
9 is one off from 10, so it has a very predictable pattern.
4, 6 and 8 are even numbers, so they share common divisors with 10.
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299,999 is divisible by 7 and 17.
C’mon Chloe! This is 3rd grade math.
The information was there in front of Chloe and me this whole time, and still, we never realized
Tell me you're not a dart player without telling me you don't play darts.
Honestly I generally assume that everyone that isn't a slightly portly northern English man carrying a pint does not play darts seriously
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