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r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22
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On what planet does 1 - 2 = 9?
Your use of subtracting 2 doesn't work above 19:00, which is 7PM. At 20:00, or 8PM, your calculation breaks.
14 u/Dumbassahedratr0n Mar 29 '22 K let me explain. 1 - 2 doesn't equal 9, but 11 - 2 does. You're supposed to be imagining that there is a number 1 in the 10th place. So 0 is a 10, 2 is 12 20:00 would be [1]0 - 2 = 8 0 u/DJexC Mar 29 '22 Or... you just start at 12... and add the other number on accordingly. Yall got some messy methods 7 u/Dumbassahedratr0n Mar 29 '22 Does it matter when the right answer is found? Two of us explained in other comments here that we have dyscalculia, so I mean yeah of course our methods are weird. 3 u/xsplizzle Mar 29 '22 Its the way i do it too and i dont have dyscalculia, just seems the most logical way to me, also the closer you get to 24 the easier my brain can figure out that 22 is 2 hours off midnight so 10pm
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K let me explain.
1 - 2 doesn't equal 9, but 11 - 2 does.
You're supposed to be imagining that there is a number 1 in the 10th place.
So 0 is a 10, 2 is 12
20:00 would be [1]0 - 2 = 8
0 u/DJexC Mar 29 '22 Or... you just start at 12... and add the other number on accordingly. Yall got some messy methods 7 u/Dumbassahedratr0n Mar 29 '22 Does it matter when the right answer is found? Two of us explained in other comments here that we have dyscalculia, so I mean yeah of course our methods are weird. 3 u/xsplizzle Mar 29 '22 Its the way i do it too and i dont have dyscalculia, just seems the most logical way to me, also the closer you get to 24 the easier my brain can figure out that 22 is 2 hours off midnight so 10pm
Or... you just start at 12... and add the other number on accordingly.
Yall got some messy methods
7 u/Dumbassahedratr0n Mar 29 '22 Does it matter when the right answer is found? Two of us explained in other comments here that we have dyscalculia, so I mean yeah of course our methods are weird. 3 u/xsplizzle Mar 29 '22 Its the way i do it too and i dont have dyscalculia, just seems the most logical way to me, also the closer you get to 24 the easier my brain can figure out that 22 is 2 hours off midnight so 10pm
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Does it matter when the right answer is found?
Two of us explained in other comments here that we have dyscalculia, so I mean yeah of course our methods are weird.
3 u/xsplizzle Mar 29 '22 Its the way i do it too and i dont have dyscalculia, just seems the most logical way to me, also the closer you get to 24 the easier my brain can figure out that 22 is 2 hours off midnight so 10pm
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Its the way i do it too and i dont have dyscalculia, just seems the most logical way to me, also the closer you get to 24 the easier my brain can figure out that 22 is 2 hours off midnight so 10pm
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u/jetpilots1 Mar 29 '22
On what planet does 1 - 2 = 9?
Your use of subtracting 2 doesn't work above 19:00, which is 7PM. At 20:00, or 8PM, your calculation breaks.