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Re:Aphantasia by aappleby on Saturday November 27, 2021 @09:56PM (#29365792)
Surely it isn't that rare? I can track about 8 digits total while doing mental mul/div, and I don't think of that as anything special.
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Re:Aphantasia by the_only_law on Saturday November 27, 2021 @10:00PM (#29365801)
I’m probably just an idiot, but I am absolutely terrible and anything that requires me to retain information in my head for a calculation.
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Re:Aphantasia by FPGAhacker on Saturday November 27, 2021 @10:06PM (#29365828)
So you could multiply or divide two four digit numbers by visualizing them?

To me that is pretty incredible!

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Re:Aphantasia by josephcsible on Saturday November 27, 2021 @10:17PM (#29365882)
How do you figure? Just the two inputs would take up all 8 digits, but you need to keep track of a bunch of intermediate results too.
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Re:Aphantasia by aappleby on Saturday November 27, 2021 @11:55PM (#29366280)
Yeah 4x4 would be a bit much, 3x3 is doable, 3x2 is easy.
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