Mental Calculation Papers

A collection of papers by Ron Doerfler and others


Notes and Errata for Dead Reckoning – Calculating Without Instruments (13 May 2024)

A Method for 4 × 4 Digit Mental Multiplications (21 April 2006)

Developing a “Number Sense” through Mental Multiplication (6 November 2006)

Fast Approximation of the Tangent, Hyperbolic Tangent, Exponential and Logarithmic Functions (27 June 2007)

The McIntosh–Doerfler Algorithm for Exponentials (17 June 2021)