My thread is still alive? I don't remember /sci/ being this slow of a board, that's actually based.
>>13614327I do it even with paper calculations, but to a lesser degree. It's so ridiculously ineffective that it's funny when you think about it. Still, it's fast enough for school because I've been doing it this way for my whole life.
>>13614360The latter. It's not too big of a deal, I'm on the verge of getting a master's degree in structural engineering despite having this flaw, but I know lots of people don't hear the numbers, just 'see' them and don't need an interpreter in the form of native language. I'm sure it's way more practical and faster this way.
Not sure if this is possible to learn though, I've always been a verbal-heavy thinker and I'm already 26 so it seems kind of hard to re-wire your brain at this point, but I'm curious to see if there are any methods that would help improving the mathematical way of thinking. Didn't have much success googling for it so far.