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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Works for someone born in 1980 like myself. Easy to track when born at the beginning of a decade.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, equally as easy to split the equation. Born in 1999? Subtract current year from 1990. Then subtract 9. Easy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And the easiest way to count sheep is to count all the legs and divide by 4, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you don't see a difference between "do the tens, then do a simple subtraction with digits between 1 - 9" and dividing an arbitrary number by four, then there is no sense arguing. Also it would lead to bad results in your example - the average number of legs a sheep has isn't 4.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

For most herds of sheep, the average is four.