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Does anyone know

Aug 31, 2021 by hayden9102
any cool math tricks? Idk my mind is fluttering rn so I wanna learn stuff.

My favorite is the 5 squared trick where

X5 squared =
X*(X+1) 25

Basically 45 squared is 2025 since 4*(4+1) 25= (4*5) 25 =2025.

95 squared is 9025, 135 squared is 18225, 205 squared is 42025

Try it out <3

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Well done
Sent by Tyler93,Aug 31, 2021
No trick but I started reading a book called the mathematics of human flourishing by Francis Su. Think you might like it
Sent by tbrown_47,Aug 31, 2021
kindred7 might know a few
Sent by woeisme,Aug 31, 2021
Tyler93 tysm I try

tbrown_47 I’ll have to check it out thanks!

woeisme that girl never ceases to amaze 😂
Sent by hayden9102,Aug 31, 2021
^^ me @ girl (she's an old man)
Sent by Tyler93,Aug 31, 2021
Lol hayden9102 I LOVE that trick so much I think it’s my fave - I don’t know if I have a lot… I’ll have to think…
There’s these (though I’m guessing you’ve heard of them? I like the divisible by 3 one):
https://tengaged.com/blog/Kindred7/9549721/for-every-50-points

And then computer3000 told me something neat recently… I’m sure @3pi14159 should have something too…
Sent by Kindred7,Aug 31, 2021
kindred7 yay! That’s the kind of trash I like to see haha I never knew the 11 one so thanks for that! <3
Sent by hayden9102,Aug 31, 2021
hayden9102 ooh really? Yay I love the 11 one as well :) idk how not too many people find these things exciting. My cousin had taught me a great trick when I was a kid (it had something to do with adding numbers that were 5 digits) but I can’t remember. If I do I’ll let you know
Sent by Kindred7,Aug 31, 2021
Yeah keep me in the loop haha 😂 This is one of my callings in life. I kind of developed a trick which isn’t really a trick but I have to write it out one day because it is super complicated and doesn’t really help lol
Sent by hayden9102,Aug 31, 2021
You can find the cubic root of any two digit number (as long as it’s a whole number) just by looking at the first digits and last digit. You just need to know your 1-9 cubes
1cubed is 1
2cubed is 8
3 is 27
4 is 64
5 is 125
6 is 216
7 is 343
8 is 512
9 is 729

50,653 = the thousands are 50, which is between 27-64 so the first digit is 3
The last digit is 3, which if you look at your 1-9 cubes, 7 is the one that ends in 3, so the last digit is 7.

Therefore, the cube root of 50,653 is 37
Sent by Sam_Hamwich,Aug 31, 2021
Also doing like geometry in 8th grade I made a trick (that apparently isn’t wellknown but I can’t imagine I made it up)

But if you have a problem where it’s like “The sum is 39 and the difference is 7. What are the numbers?”
You just add them and divide by 2 and subtract and divide by 2 and those are the answers.
39-7=32/2 is 16
39+7=46/2 is 23

16 and 23
Sent by Sam_Hamwich,Aug 31, 2021
I've been summoned by Kindred7

hayden9102

The fun maths puzzle I'm about to show you is called the Collatz Conjecture.

Basically pick any number above 4.

If it's even halve it. If it's odd times by 3 and add one. Keep doing this and you will always end up in a 4-2-1 loop.

For example 25...

25 76 38 19 58 29 88 44 22 11 34 17 52 26 13 40 20 10 5 16 8 4 2 1 4...
Sent by computer3000,Aug 31, 2021
Sam_Hamwich The cube root one is another that has impressed many people so it’s awesome you know that. I like your second trick but doing a systems of equations is basically the same thing.

Computer3000 I’ve heard of this one before as well. It’s still pretty cool though thanks!!!
Sent by hayden9102,Aug 31, 2021

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