2886+973/95=180!

Maths….I’ve never really got my head around it, I’m numerically dyslectic I reckon. The maths thick table and I were good friends, my name scratched into the wood with a broken biro. I just couldn’t get it, all those numbers spinning around my head like Stephen Hawking’s blackboard. Does anybody really understand what Pi is? Trigonometry? Square root? Algebra? Just thinking about it takes me back to school sat next to dopey Derek biting his nails looking lost. Mind you he was on every thick table in every lesson. Last I heard he was an accountant and doing very well.

But then when I was a teenager me and a few mates started playing darts. Suddenly it all clicked in. Trebles, doubles, working out a 131 finish, that kind of thing. It all made sense, and you had to be quick, no counting fingers and toes. I think that’s how Archimedes started, chucking a few arrows at a board, shouting in ancient Greek, “One Huuuunnnndddrrreeeddd And Eighty!”

Now it’s easy, grab your phone go straight on the calculator and job done. The no brain strain modern way. In fact it’s that clever it’s making us all stupid, me anyway. Think I’ll ditch the whole technology stuff and go back to basics. I’ll use good old fashioned pen and paper, get that gray matter moving. Right! time to work out this electricity bill. Bloody hell even Archimedes would struggle with this…..on second thoughts I’ll use the calculator!