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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Then you're getting into things like muscle memory. I'm not a neuroscientist, but I imagine that could also be boiled down to math being done subconsciously and instantaneously in your brain.

Almost like if you do a thing enough times, you just look it up in a chart instead of deriving it from the equation every time...