A new way to multiply

Much easier to use a calculator. :)

First I have seen on this way of multiplying though.

Math lesson link

Very interesting that Humpty, could make the multipication table obsolete!

To quote Arsenal Hall

Things that make you go hmm.

bah. that was beyond confusing.

bah. that was beyond confusing.

what are you talking about?!?!

that was beyond easy, im just not sure if its any faster multiplying that way rather than just multiplying it all out ;)

Yeah but if it ain't broke why try and fix it. Someone is always coming up with a "better" idea only for everyone to ignore it can keep doing things the way we're all used to doing it. Also with calculators vastly available and dirt cheap too, doing the multiplication by hand that way is already obsolete in my opinion.

for someone like me who goes to a really geeky math school, a trick like that would really impress a girl at a party...now to find a girl at a math party and test this hypothesis

won't work :P