https://matgb.dreamwidth.org/ Mat Bowles - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 02 May 2010 00:08:59 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios matgb personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/713064/17442 https://matgb.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://matgb.dreamwidth.org/371166.html Sun, 02 May 2010 00:08:59 GMT https://matgb.dreamwidth.org/371166.html 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 https://matgb.dreamwidth.org/371166.html maths cool video public 8