Reuse/Recycle Your Math

Karen Remick
4 min readFeb 11, 2023
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I’ve found a lot of my math hacks by being lazy. I don’t want to use any more effort than I have to to get an answer. One of the first things I started doing is to reuse or recycle the math I already did.

One of the first things I started doing is when we are multiplying a number with a repeated digit, for example, 27 X 55, I put the number with the repeated digit on the bottom. Like this:

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Karen Remick

Scientist (PhD Space Physics), Inventor, INTJ, and all around strange person.