What is the simplest way to calculate mentally the cubes of numbers from 1 to 60?

Question

I know the common method is to multiply it three times. But, that would require paper and pen / pencil. I want to learn the mental calculation method. Please let me know how.
Thanks

Answer 1

The cubes of numbers from 1 to 11 are easy to do in your head, right?

1, 8, 27, 64, 125, 216, 343, 512, 729, 1000, 1331

Some of the others are easy. Cubes of 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 - just add three zeros to cubes of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

16^3 is the same as 2^12, so 4096. (that's 4*1024 if you only know the powers of two up to 2^10)

32^3 is the same as 2^15, so 32,768. (assume you know the powers of two fairly high)

You just have to pick up the tricks.

Answer 2

multiply and divide equally