How to: count big numbers

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great site

this guy's "9"s are stupid

how are you doing

how would this work for the xxx0's? for example: 300X133

I hope you all realize, it would be easier and faster to do it the original way of multiplication.

For those interested in how this works... The line intersections are basically doing multiplication, just separated out into steps and made pretty. The bottom right corner is the intersection between the 2 "ones" places, and the amount of intersections is the product of the two, which is the number of of "ones" in the final product. Now, to get the "tens" place in the final product, you multiply the "ones" digit in the first # by the "tens" digit in the second number, and vice versa, and then add the two together to get the "tens" digit in the final product. And, if ever these numbers are more than 9, then you add the number other than the unit place to the value 10 times bigger, just like in regular multiplication. This process repeats itself a number of times depending on the size of the 2 numbers until you get the answer. I hope this makes sense...

Use a calculator? LOL

seems to me that the original way of solving multiplication problems is faster. could even solve them in my head faster than drawing a bunch of lines and counting.