- multiplying a number by itself
- Squaring two digit numbers in your head (blog.jgc.org)
All my life I’ve done mental arithmetic the ‘wrong way’: I’ve calculated from left-to-right, instead of right-to-left. So when I do something like 24 + 35 I’ll see the 50 first and then the 9. This even applies when there’s a carry and I’ll do something like 36 + 56 as 80 + 12. I do the same thing for multiplication as well.
- James K. Polk (allthetropes.org)
Um… They Might Be Giants sang about him? And the school in Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide was named after him, wasn’t it? Or was it Married… with Children? The only US Presidential candidate to lose both his home state and state of residence but still win until 2016?