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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 21 December 2014 07:29:27PM 2 points [-]

Drinking has surprisingly little impact on those parts of mathematics ...

I performed an experiment regarding this and at least for me the ability to do mathematics was the first that suffered. Long before balance or speech. This has been recorded by a non-drunk non-biased outside observer. It may be that this is due to the way math was checked, namely by relatively simple calculation on-the-fly. I started to make small slips or oversights. And I didn't do routine calculations. I don't do boring calculations by rote but by doing more or less clever short-cuts and these failed.