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@Oliver Schick
I'm just saying that because all the guys who got starred As in maths were almost comically unable to do any mental arithmetic. I was always quite good at it, and I'm a very bad mathematician. I just do it by remembering the words to the numbers, and hey presto. The good mathematicians never liked doing the work with actual numbers but always wanted to do the hard proofs, which I could never do. I suppose that really you'd need to be good at both to be a good mathematician, but they were either too one-sided or never did much work on it.