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Hungry 9 (lemmy.likes.cat)
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[-] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

You can't take three from two,
Two is less than three,
So you look at the four in the tens place.
Now that's really four tens,
So you make it three tens,
Regroup, and you change a ten to ten ones,
And you add them to the two and get twelve,
And you take away three, that's nine.
Is that clear?

Tom Lehrer, "New Math"

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