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Use the formula ALL FROM 9 AND THE LAST FROM 10 to perform instant subtractions.

• For example 1000 - 357 = 643
  
  We simply take each figure in 357 from 9 and the last figure from 10.
  
  So the answer is 1000 - 357 = 643
  
  And thats all there is to it!
  
  This always works for subtractions from numbers consisting of a 1 followed by noughts: 100; 1000; 10,000 etc.
  
  
• Similarly 10,000 - 1049 = 8951
  
• For 1000 - 83, in which we have more zeros than figures in the numbers being subtracted, we simply suppose 83 is 083.  
  
  So 1000 - 83 becomes 1000 - 083 = 917
  

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Mathematics, rightly
viewed, possesses not
only truth but supreme
beauty. . .

Bertrand Russell