Yo but hear me out. Because 7 ate(8) 9, 7 + 9 = 7

Me, bad at math: yeah they taught us that as a way to do in grade school.

Whatever number is closest to 10 steals enough to make itself 10. Same goes for hundreds, thousands, whatever. Get your round numbers first, add in the others later. All numbers must become 10. In a pinch, a number may become a 5, but if so, it's really just become a half-10, and it should feel bad about itself that isn't a full 10 yet.

Intellectuals, apparently: easy math

You, with ADHD: I like my easy math with an extra step or two

Me, literally clinically insane: preeeeeetty sure I find a way to solve that using the factorializing of transfinites and [TREE]3 somehow, maybe not

Googologers: HOLD MY UN/COUNTABLE INFINITIES, BITCH

Let's make that 9 a 10 because it's good enough, it's smart enough, and goshdarnit people like it. Also, I don't wanna add with a 9. So 10 + 7 would be 17, but we added 1 to the 9 to make it 10 so now we take 1 away, 17 - 1 = 16.

ezpz

8+8 and 8X2 are literally the exact same thing, why did they feel the need to make that an extra step?