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Every educated person, who knows how to mulitply quickly in his head, will have an advantage over those who don't. It is an essential life skill. Learning your tables by rote -- memorizing -- ensures that you can compute quickly and accurately and frees your mind to tackle more complex operations and concepts.

You cannot go through life hoping that a calculator will be handy every time you need to multiply two numbers or figure out a discount on a sale item or determine whether you've been overcharged for 17 gallons of gas at $3.05 a gallon.

Even if you have a calculator, knowing how to multiply in your head can help to recognize fat finger errors (when you accidentally hit the wrong button).

When trying to find factors, knowing a multiplication table will allow you to just see the factors. If you don't recognize factors, then you just have to do trial and error.

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