Pretty much anything can be broken down to calculations. Take any sport, for example, and apart from the physical prowess factor needed for the mere execution of the calculations, it pretty much all comes down to the incredible maths our brains can do. Just because, in this particular example, it’s done consciously, doesn’t make it any less fun. On the contrary, if you ask me :)

Or consider a baby, having fun with blocks and squeaky toys and whatnot. Banging it all together, throwing stuff to the floor, squeezing stuff, rotating stuff,… what it’s doing is basically figuring out some of the basic laws of physics and enjoying the experience a lot. Its brains are figuring out the calculations we all come to take for granted.

Of course, I’ve always been a fan of maths myself, so I might well be rather biased here. Lately I’ve been regularly training myself to calculate the squares of 3 digit numbers without writing anything down, at which I sadly still fail more often than not, the problem being one of memory rather than one of calculation though. Still… this is fun to me and I won’t ever understand the majority of people’s aversion to calculations. There would be no joy at all without them.

PS: Thanks. I was worried there. Though I don’t buy your explanation :p

I liked it :)