• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I remember the day I learned how multiplication worked.

    I described it as adding repeatedly.

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      To me repeating something a finite number of times implies iterating in order which is basically counting. But that might be because I do a lot of maths and programming.