>Still haven't memorized the times tables >Still count

I refused to memorize the times tables in elementary school because I realized it was just iterative addition and that I could always use a calculator.

I also refused to learn cursive as well.

Damn it feels good not to be a brainlet.

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>>8500284
post more chen, chenposter

>>8500289
>Damn it feels good to voluntarily be a brainlet.
ftfy

>>8500289
>I realized it was just iterative addition

>"Multiplication has been erroneously called a compendious method of performing addition: whereas it is the taking, or repeating of one given number as many times, as the number by which it is to be multiplied, contains units. Thus, 9 x 3 means that 9 is to be taken 3 times, or that the measure of multiplication is 3; again, 9 x 1/2 means that 9 is to be taken half a time, or that the measure of multiplication is 1/2. In multiplication there are two factors, which are sometimes called the multiplicand and the multiplier. These, it is evident, may reciprocally change places, and the product will still be the same: for 9 x 3 = 3 x 9, and 9 x 1/2 = 1/2 x 9."

>"Hence it appears, that numbers may be diminished by multiplication, as well as increased, in any given ratio, which is wholly inconsistent with the nature of Addition..."

-Euler, "The Elements of Algebra," translated from the French by Francis Horner, Esq.

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>never memorized the quadratic formula
>just scored in the 93rd percentile of the gre math section, so I'll never have to learn it EVER

Mwahahahahahahahahaha! I FOOLED them!

>>8500390
>tfw never took eng till hs
>never took a regular math class till middle school
>pass fine somehow.

>>8500390
I rarely memorized formulas for exams.

I would just quickly derive them from first principles as and when I needed them.