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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Quick Square

If you need to square a 2 digit number ending in 5, you can do so very easily with this trick.
Multiply the first digit by itself + 1, and put 25 on the end. That is all!

25^2 = (2x(2+1)) & 25
2 x 3 = 6
625

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