- MENKAR (Alpha Ceti). Cetus, the Sea Monster (or Whale), appears to move backwards across the sky, his tail (illuminated by Deneb Kaitos) rising first, Menkar, at the leading (eastern) edge of his head, rising last.
- 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.