When the U.S.A. was founded, the lack of technology favored a Representative Democracy for our Republic. The only recourse of its citizens is to vote out the current so-called "Representatives" every several years when they do not actually represent the views of their constituents. Current tech...
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@El'endiaStarman I've fiddled with it a bit now. I think it's pretty useless for three digits or under. It's faster the conventional way. I had a go with some random five digit numbers and it worked out correctly. I had to learn through trial and error how to actually sum the counts; the info graphic is not very clear on how to do it.
I think there is a high margin for error with this method, however, because you are counting individual dots and moving in a cock-eyed way through the lines. The conventional way keeps everything in a neat grid.
I think I might try some thing crazy, like two 20 digits and see what happens.
I just did some five digits the conventional way and I think it was much faster. Takes up less space too.
I think now, I'm going to drop this as a novelty and probably never think of it again.
@MattGutting My wife's a teacher. She sat in at a local Montessori school and thought it was awesome. They way she described it sounded pretty cool. Thanks for the links.
Those bones are way easier than scratching lines every time. But then you gotta carry around the bones.
If you know your times tables and you can add up several two-digit numbers in your head, then you can use a derived method to multiply together two large numbers and write only one string of digits for the answer with no intermediate sums.
Possibly could be useful as a party trick of sorts, but I generally don't do parties, sooo... :P
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