Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky's famous painting, "Mental Arithmetic. In the Public School of S. Rachinsky." The math problem the boys are trying to solve on the board is (10²+11²+12²+13²+14²)/365.
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The answer is 2, and yes, done as mental arithmetic.
It's actually quite cute.
Happy to say I can still do it.
Can't do countdown fast enough though.
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I did 10^2 = 100
11^2= a 1 then unit+unit then unit*unit so 121
12^2 = 1 then 2+2 then 2*2
13^2 …
14..
10 + 11 + 12 each squared was 365 locked that then added the last two together