...in your head silly billy... I can see a matrix of 6 x 6... a matrix of 6 x 7? I can no longer see all the pieces in one glance. It's a basic cognitive reality... we can only hold so many separate pieces of data in our mind at once... after that we use operations. I'm talking about the gestalt.
... as my very favorite multiplication.
Only learned about Douglas Adams years later.
There is something intensely satisfying about 6 times 7.
Its too big to really hold in your mind like 6 time 6...
You can't really see it or get there by adding.
It's the smallest multiplication that you just have to know...
It's like the first step up.
And yet it feels solid.
Let's drink to 42.
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...in your head silly billy... I can see a matrix of 6 x 6... a matrix of 6 x 7? I can no longer see all the pieces in one glance. It's a basic cognitive reality... we can only hold so many separate pieces of data in our mind at once... after that we use operations. I'm talking about the gestalt.
... as my very favorite multiplication. Only learned about Douglas Adams years later. There is something intensely satisfying about 6 times 7. Its too big to really hold in your mind like 6 time 6... You can't really see it or get there by adding. It's the smallest multiplication that you just have to know... It's like the first step up. And yet it feels solid. Let's drink to 42.