So is that the "Zange"? Because you need to go from the things you are holding (the information, in "German") to the hinge (the literal English translation) and back down again (actual German translation) to understand (aka grasp it)‽
For anyone else stumbling about this revelation:
It very well wouldn't be Unicode otherwise now, would it?
There's a reason linguists and computer scientists sometimes get mental breakdowns over emoji because the know that those same emoji were on the same agenda taking up actual time as discussions about which ancient language or newly discovered grapheme/symbol/lexicogram/whatever should be added first/next. (Not saying emoji aren't also tremendously important/good/what ever additions!!)
Welcome to Greece!
No, not our modern Greece, the old timey write philosophical questions into the dirt with sticks and argue with your best homies about it kind of Greece!
Want to compute something? Hope you got all your steps in linear order so you don't have to remember too much in between other steps!
/s (but not really so I totally am on your side, original formulations of math problems are a pain...)
Your likely looking for the app "Puzzles" ob Android or one of its desktop versions, I am not entirely sure if they are actually open source but there are at least some people's contributions and it not only has "Killer" sudoku but a whole bunch of additional options (as well as tons of other awesome puzzle/logic games)!
Just because you waste 80% of the food you get doesn't mean you can't still be twice as fast as everyone else at getting new food!