That’s just a normal shortcut for mental math. Break your problem into simpler problems then combine, in this case if one wants to know 7+6 this is being turned from 7+7=14, an easy problem to remember, into (7-1)+7=14-1=13.

That doesn’t feel exactly right as it’s not exactly the way you think about it, but words can’t describe such inferences of thought other than to call them what they are which is not exactly how one’s thoughts reflect them.

Pixel 7 pro. Was gonna get the 7a but they are giving me 200 more dollars in my trade in if I go for the pro, making it cheater then the a.

Beeper is looking pretty awesome. It (and things like BlueBubbles) are allowing me to switch to android, and I love it. Can’t wait for my new phone to arrive!

I’m on iOS using mlem, which has so far been the best app I’ve used for it. It used to be somewhat unpolished and lacking, but in the latest update most of the bugs have been ironed out and the image viewer is in existence. Lemma also looks really promising although it’s still in early early development. For mastodon I use ice cubes although for my uses of mastodon I might just download an rss reader.