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I replied to "Can you try calculating 101 * 70 in your head?". Yes, many people can successfully calculate it through learned tricks or no learned tricks. That is all I am saying. And my question is: how is calculating it in your own head brute-force, especially if done without such tricks? No need to complicate it, answers to my question would suffice.
> how is calculating it in your own head brute-force Doing this calculation in your head is not brute force, which was their entire point. Their math question was an example of why the brain isn't brute-forcing solutions, replying to this: > What makes you think your brain isn't also brute forcing potential solutions subconciously and only surfacing the useful results?
In any case, I am not sure why he kept on telling me that you do not solve it through brute-force because that is not what I said.