Whoa! Multiply Numbers Graphically...

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=21197

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antonye wrote

Coo, I've not seen that before, good innit.

Piss poor sound though.

 

<boggle>

<jaw drops>

 

Read the explanatory text, and all becomes clear. "It is just doing
what you do long form." and it is too.

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I thought that was blindingly obvious just watching it. Needs bigger
bits of paper as well.

 

Well, it is blindingly obvious - I'm just stunned that I'm looking 50
years of age in the eyes and I've never seen this before - and it's so
simple.

 

9789 x 7899 looks like a map of the underground.

 

Well, I'll grant you I've not either, but it still looked cumbersome,
which is why, I suspect, you (or me) have not seen it.

 

Bad form and all, but the other one I was trying to remember was Gelosia
multiplication
http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~swalsh/Math Articles/GelosiaMultiply.html
which is, I think, the same thing with less lines. Or maybe not, I
dunno, I'm off to the pub.

 

We'll have to do a how old is everyone thread . Is it just me or is
everyone else getting older as well?

 

I'm 38. That was more confusing that doing it the normal way.

 

I liked how you worked than in there. HB Pip.

 

eric the brave <""simonb_at_zapik_dot_co_dot_uk\"@foo.com (eric the

They don't want to be left out.

 

muddy cat wrote

Bits of my memory are getting younger.

Left out of what? I am not being told about things am I? What is
happening that I don't know about?

 

Is this the new **** or have I touched a nerve?

 

Resorting to decimals, eh?

What's memory?

I would imagine lots.

 

Than, right? For some reason I seem to do this a lot too.

 

I don't. It was a one off.

 

muddy wrote

Only because at this particular time of the year if is very accurate.

I imagine lots too but matron told me it would be best all round if I
don't mention anything about it, especially to nervous people and
policemen.