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A comment on Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008). Parent comment

Re:Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008) by anon4 on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @11:08AM (#10974088)
Remembering the multiplication table up to 12 seems to be an American thing. We only did up to 9 and from then on learned how to multiply many-digit numbers going digit by digit.
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