Fatnums: an Alternate Representation for School Arithmetic (2020)
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An article discusses an alternative representation for school arithmetic called FatNums, with a commenter providing a nuanced assessment of its benefits and limitations.
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I think the author is overselling it, but I think it's fine if we force normalization.