http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr352/i...ca_na_china.flv

pretty impressive to see it in action. I wouldn't have thought it works, but apparently it does

 

WTF?

 

I like our way better.

 

That's interesting!

When I first saw the thread title I thought "Duh, they just fock like rabbits".

 

That's awesome.

 

you should see the way the women eat egg rolls.... (old joke from a show called Flying Blind with Tea Leoni)

but seriously, that's pretty awesome. maybe magician can chime in and explain how that worked.

 

I remember multiplying with this method a long time ago, its really simple all you do is draw lines based on the numbers being multiplied and count the intersection points, the hardest part to understand for me was which intersection points correspond to which two digits being multiplied. (Sorry i'm bad at explaining)
I thought the video was self explanatory!!

Long multiplication is a lot faster, but this is cool method to impress people with.

great find!

 

is that like a 2D abacus?

a normal chinese person uses a calculator. a poor chinese person uses an abacus. and a chinese person living in rural china uses this method?

 

Dammit. Whenever I have something witty to say, somebody always beats me to the punch.

 

Wow that is crazy