Good with Numbers: Difference between revisions

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* Sadaharu Inui, the Seigaku [[Genius Bruiser]] from ''[[Prince of Tennis]]''. This makes him victim of [[Flanderization]] in both [[Fanon]] and canon.

* Despite his general [[Book Dumb|doofiness]], ''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]'''s Azuma Kazuma turns out to be nothing short of a mathematical genius when he ''solves a cryptographic problem in base 26'' in less than a minute.

* It's not made a big deal of or even really mentioned outright (in the anime, anyway), but Accelerator in ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' is [[Good with Numbers]] as one of the [[Required Secondary Powers|necessary abilities]] to actually use his esper ability properly. The [[Good Is Dumb|nerf]] he gets is actually based on brain damage that affects his mathematics ability and requires a ''ten thousand person'' ''[[Hive Mind]]'' to correct for a mere 15 minutes at a time.

* It's not made a big deal of or even really mentioned outright (in the anime, anyway), but Accelerator in ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' is Good with Numbers as one of the [[Required Secondary Powers|necessary abilities]] to actually use his esper ability properly. The [[Good Is Dumb|nerf]] he gets is actually based on brain damage that affects his mathematics ability and requires a ''ten thousand person'' ''[[Hive Mind]]'' to correct for a mere 15 minutes at a time.

** [[It Gets Better]], as GROUP's enhancements were able to extend his Esper Mode to 30 minutes, then ''he himself'' managed to reduce his battery consumption by ''90 percent'' so he could use it for undertaking longer missions.

** It's been implied that the more powerful an Esper is, the more likely that he is [[Good with Numbers]]. [[Green Lantern Ring|Dark Matter]], [[Wave Motion Gun|Rail]][[Shock and Awe|gun]], and [[Energy Weapon|Melt]][[Frickin' Laser Beams|down]] are all very powerful espers with immense Physics (and, you guessed it, Math) knowledge. [[Teleporters and Transporters|Teleporters]] (except [[Back Stab|Kill Point]]) can calculate ''[[Up to Eleven|up to the eleventh dimension]]''.

** It's been implied that the more powerful an Esper is, the more likely that he is Good with Numbers. [[Green Lantern Ring|Dark Matter]], [[Wave Motion Gun|Rail]][[Shock and Awe|gun]], and [[Energy Weapon|Melt]][[Frickin' Laser Beams|down]] are all very powerful espers with immense Physics (and, you guessed it, Math) knowledge. [[Teleporters and Transporters|Teleporters]] (except [[Back Stab|Kill Point]]) can calculate ''[[Up to Eleven|up to the eleventh dimension]]''.

* This is Kenji's defining ability in ''[[Summer Wars]]''. He's so damn good he solves 2056-bit encryption in his head.

* [[Comic Book Adaptation|The supplementary manga]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] A's'' revealed that, [[Always Someone Better|much to the competitive Alisa's chagrin]], both Nanoha and Fate are like this. Fate especially, to the point where Nanoha's sister goes to her for help on her high school math homework even though Fate's in elementary school. The same chapter also mentioned that the magic in the series requires a good bit of math, so being good with numbers is one of the reasons why they're both top mages.

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* Andrew Jackson "Slipstick" Libby from [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''Future History'' series. In his introductory short story ''Misfit'', he replaces a spaceship navigation computer by performing all spatial calculations needed to navigate the ship in real time ''in his head''.

** And his mathematical genius comes to light when he warns of a critical calculation error made in setting a small nuclear charge based on what he's learned about laying the charges just by watching the officer making the calculations. (For the younger generation who'ven ever seen one, a "slipstick" is a nickname for a sliderule, a type of analog calculation aid common before hand-held calculators got good enough to do things like logarithms.)

* Also form Heinlein, Deety Carter from [[The Number of the Beast]] is as fast a calculator as Slipstick Libby. She also has a photographic memory and an incredibly precise circadian ~~rhythm--i~~.e., a clock in her head. She's a slight subversion, though, in that she says that her lightning calculator ability is pointless with computers around (except that she can see a glitch in a program much more easily than most people).

* Also form Heinlein, Deety Carter from [[The Number of the Beast]] is as fast a calculator as Slipstick Libby. She also has a photographic memory and an incredibly precise circadian rhythm—i.e., a clock in her head. She's a slight subversion, though, in that she says that her lightning calculator ability is pointless with computers around (except that she can see a glitch in a program much more easily than most people).

* Romeo "Mo'Steel" Gonzalez from ''[[Remnants]]'', able to tell how many years and days he had been in stasis with just a glance at a counter showing how many minutes had passed. It totaled "five-hundred years, twelve days, and some spare change."

* Meg Murry, from ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'' and other books by [[Madeleine L'Engle]].

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'''Bursar''': -- Tuesday --

'''Ridcully''': -- but can't tie their boot laces. }}

** By ''Unseen Academicals'', however, he has either lost several more of his faculties or just been [[~~Retcon|retconned~~]] into an incompetent - Unseen University's finances are in a mess and Ponder Stibbons has had to take on the Bursar's job (in addition to his twelve ''official'' positions, and probably just about everything else that needs to get done, ever) because he 'regards the decimal point as a nuisance'. An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of this is that after discovering imaginary numbers and ''n''-dimensional manifolds in ''[[Discworld/The Science of Discworld|The Science of Discworld]]'', he refuses to descend from higher maths back to boring old arithmatic, and is trying to do the accounts with aleph-null and "umpt".

** By ''Unseen Academicals'', however, he has either lost several more of his faculties or just been [[retcon]]ned into an incompetent - Unseen University's finances are in a mess and Ponder Stibbons has had to take on the Bursar's job (in addition to his twelve ''official'' positions, and probably just about everything else that needs to get done, ever) because he 'regards the decimal point as a nuisance'. An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of this is that after discovering imaginary numbers and ''n''-dimensional manifolds in ''[[Discworld/The Science of Discworld|The Science of Discworld]]'', he refuses to descend from higher maths back to boring old arithmatic, and is trying to do the accounts with aleph-null and "umpt".

** Granny Weatherwax is described in ''Maskerade'' as "grudgingly literate, but keenly numerate". It takes her seconds to deduce how much Nanny Ogg is being screwed by the publisher of her cookbook, even taking into consideration things like the cost of materials and distribution. She is also able to figure out the finances of the opera house, which were expertly tampered with to hide an embezzlement scam.

* Talen from ''[[The Elenium]]'' is of the "can do normal math ''really'' fast" variety, which he claims developed from practice, and the need for a thief to do on-the-spot appraisals and fence stolen goods. His skill instead comes into play during the Church election's political maneuvering and vote tallying.

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'''Zoe:''' "You understand how that sounds?"

'''Jayne:''' "What? She killed them with mathematics. What else could it have been?" }}

* Face, on [[The A-Team]] is brilliant with numbers. Naturally he's in charge of the team's finances, which he keeps record of in a little black book (not that he needs ~~it--he~~'s really good at mental math).

* Face, on [[The A-Team]] is brilliant with numbers. Naturally he's in charge of the team's finances, which he keeps record of in a little black book (not that he needs it—he's really good at mental math).

* Malcolm from ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' can do mental math with ''Credit Cards Numbers''.

** At one point he helped his dad win at poker by being able to calculate the exact probabilities of the availability of certain cards.

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** Neku could also apply for being able to belt out the square root of 3 at the drop of a hat ({{spoiler|during day two of the second week}}, for those who wanted to know), but he could also have a calculator on his phone.

* Dmitri Petrovich of ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' has this, coupled with the ability to use mnemonics to remember stats.

* Ran Yakumo of the ''[[Touhou]]'' series. [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Article_and_Interview:_Ran She once calculated the width of the Sanzu River out of bordeom]. Note that the Sanzu River is the mystical river of the dead and that its width constantly changes whenever someone passes through it. In ''[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia%3A_Chapter_01 Curiosities of Lotus Asia]'', when Rinnosuke first saw a computer and learned that it's used for, he interpreted them as being the outside world's version of [[~~Familiar|familiars~~]] like Ran, because they're slaves that are used to calculate things quickly. Of course, since a [[~~Familiar|familiars~~]] power is derived from its master, [[Brilliant but Lazy|Yukari Yakumo]] is even better at numbers than Ran, and Ran mentions that if Yukari wanted, she could have calculated the depth of the Sanzu River as well, even though it's known to be bottomless.

* Ran Yakumo of the ''[[Touhou]]'' series. [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Article_and_Interview:_Ran She once calculated the width of the Sanzu River out of bordeom]. Note that the Sanzu River is the mystical river of the dead and that its width constantly changes whenever someone passes through it. In ''[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Curiosities_of_Lotus_Asia%3A_Chapter_01 Curiosities of Lotus Asia]'', when Rinnosuke first saw a computer and learned that it's used for, he interpreted them as being the outside world's version of [[familiar]]s like Ran, because they're slaves that are used to calculate things quickly. Of course, since a [[familiar]]s power is derived from its master, [[Brilliant but Lazy|Yukari Yakumo]] is even better at numbers than Ran, and Ran mentions that if Yukari wanted, she could have calculated the depth of the Sanzu River as well, even though it's known to be bottomless.

* N from [[Pokémon Black and White]]. He rambles about forumlas several times, and is seeking 'the equation to change the world'.