tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:17442 Dreaming in Digital Mat Bowles 2010-05-02T00:08:59Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-07:17442:371166 2010-05-02T00:08:59Z 2010-05-02T00:08:59Z public 8 You thought you knew maths? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAAEYIW_8" title="YouTube - Alex Bellos demonstrates a very cool, and strange way to multiply">YouTube - Alex Bellos demonstrates a very cool, and strange way to multiply</a>:<br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gwaAAEYIW_8&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x402061&amp;color2=0x9461ca"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gwaAAEYIW_8&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x402061&amp;color2=0x9461ca" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br />How weird is that? (<a href="http://twitter.com/girlonetrack/status/13213762406" title="Zoe Margolis on Twitter">Via</a>)<br /><br />Can't afford to buy the book, does anyone know more about the method, because if multiplying were that easy surely they'd be teaching it in schools, especially for the less numerically gifted?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=matgb&ditemid=371166" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments