The right-to-left addition of numbers is something we learned at school. In this article, you’ll learn how to add numbers in your head without paper or a calculator with this Vedic math trick. Click here for Vedic Math Multiplication.
Let’s learn this trick by trying to add 74 + 67.
First, we’ll lay down the addition like how we learned at school.
74
+67
_____
This is where things take a turn.
Instead of right-to-left calculation, we’ll calculate left-to-right.
So, in this example, we’ll add 7 and 6.
74
+67
_____
13
Remember this answer.
Next, we take the numbers on the right, i.e., 4 and 7.
74
+67
_____
13, 11
Now we take the numbers in the middle (3 from 12 and 1 from 11) and add them.
74
+67
_____
13, 11
1 (3 + 1) 1
141
That’s it. That’s your answer.
