The other day while I was paying bills I was budgeting the chicken scraps that my job calls a "paycheck". It came me subtracting 508-395, and I completely froze. I totally forgot how to manually subtract. I was bewildered, I was bothered, I was impatient and used the calculator on my phone. Even afterwards I was thinking about it, how could I forget how to subtract? You learn that in what 2nd grade? Then it dawned on me, you make the 0 a 10 and subtract 1 from the column to the left. Phew, for 5 minutes I forgot how to subtract, it was kind of funny. End of story.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Subtraction
The other day while I was paying bills I was budgeting the chicken scraps that my job calls a "paycheck". It came me subtracting 508-395, and I completely froze. I totally forgot how to manually subtract. I was bewildered, I was bothered, I was impatient and used the calculator on my phone. Even afterwards I was thinking about it, how could I forget how to subtract? You learn that in what 2nd grade? Then it dawned on me, you make the 0 a 10 and subtract 1 from the column to the left. Phew, for 5 minutes I forgot how to subtract, it was kind of funny. End of story.
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