How to become a Lightning Calculator by Anonymous is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book . Instantaneous Addition. here Instantaneous Addition. Accuracy should be first considered, then rapidity. Quick adders, by the way, are the most accurate. Write the numbers in vertical lines, avoiding irregularity. This is important. Keep your thought on results not numbers themselves. Do not reckon 7 and 4 are 11 and 8 are 19, but say 7, 11, 19 and so on. When the same number is repeated several times, multiply instead of adding. When adding horizontally begin at the left. In adding long columns, prove the work, by adding each column separately in the opposite direction, before adding the next column. Many accountants put down both figures as in the illustration. The sum of the first column is 12; carrying , the sum of the second is 20; carrying , the sum of the third column is 15; carrying , the sum of the fourth column is 21, and the total, 21502, is found by calling off the last two figures and the right-hand figures, following the wave line in the illustration. This method is better than the old one of penciling down the number . If one desires to go back and add a certain column a second time, the number to carry is at hand and the former total is known. one two one to carry About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Anonymous (2021). How to become a lightning calculator. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65078/pg65078-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at , located at . www.gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html

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