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Mr. Flansburg said that in most cultures, the natural tendency is to read from left to right. However, for some reason mathematicians have developed a mathematical system that sums numbers from right to left, requiring the "carry over" technique which makes mental math difficult for most people.

It's easier to teach, and no one teaches mental math. Plus it makes subtraction easier.

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Instead of using a system based on 1 - 10, Scott uses a system based on 0 - 9.

I'm not sure how our system is based on 1-10 now but whatever.

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Also, he and a few scientists have used perfect numbers to create geometrically perfect diagrams that when recreated in fields of wheat have interfered with natural magnetic fields. They believe that by creating mathematically perfect diagrams anywhere in the universe, we affect the universe at a quantum level because it is governed by quantitative laws.

May explain portals, time travel, etc.

What the hell does this even mean? How can numbers that are the sum of its divisors that aren't itself explain time travel? What the frick does 6 do to explain a damn portal?

This just seems like a guy trying to sound smart.

I think a class on mental math would be awesome. It could have a final exam where the teacher calls on individual students and makes them do stuff like 47*63 in 6 seconds