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[–] WillFord27@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

For me personally, the more steps a math problem has, the less likely I am to follow through. My mind prefers cutting corners rather than breaking equations up

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

For many of us it is cutting corners. Memory is hard, but I know my fives and anything less than five so really I just need two spots in ram instead of a bunch of tables on my tiny hard drive

[–] WillFord27@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Yes! This is true, for example, if I'm given something like 16 + 27, I'll sooner make an educated (wrong) guess 3 times than stop and think about it. Not sure if that's ADHD though!