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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 13 points 11 months ago

Neurological pathways need to be reinforced. If you aren't doing mental math regularly your ability to do it degrades.

Obviously there's very much a negative cycle at play thanks to the prevalence of modern computing but even then it's simply a matter of most people not needing to use math much day to day.