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How Chinese Multiply

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by heypartner, Dec 6, 2014.

  1. Phreak3

    Phreak3 Contributing Member

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    Because the rural people (or 99.9% of the population) don't know how to multiply like this.
     
  2. Rocket River

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    interesting to say the least
    Visual Mathematics could not hurt I guess

    I wonder WHY it works. . . I wonder who discovered this method.

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  3. PhiSlammaJamma

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    Coming from England to American in the 1st grade, my mind was blown for about a year as I tried to figure out to multiply from right to left rather than from left to right.
     
  4. Fyreball

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    My dad has engineered entire skyscrapers in New York, Boston, and Chicago using just a slide rule. Seeing his portfolios for those jobs was one of the most humbling moments of my life haha.
     

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