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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (16 children)

I would have done 10+6, but that's effectively the same thing as the OP.

Aside from literally counting, what other way is there to arrive at 16? You either memorize it, batch the numbers into something else you have memorized, or you count.

Am I missing some obvious 'natural' way?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

My mental image is squishing the 7 into the 9 but only 1 is able to be squished in, leaving 6 overflowing

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