Easiest way I can think of is to mentally calculate (30-1)(30-1) and then mentally foil the answers. You end up getting 900 - 30 - 30 + 1 = 841 which is pretty easy to do in your head.

or, take 29 x 30 to get 870. Take away one 29, get 841. Same idea, but more elegant. You've multipled 29 thirty times, you only need 29 of them, so take one away.

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