Dec 14 2010How To: Multiply Numbers By Doodling
Math was always my worst subject. I was a straight C- student. Is that why I got kicked out of the architecture program in college? Maybe. Or it could have been the fact every building I designed either looked like a tit or something to smoke out of. Some both. Whichever the case, I wish I'd learned to multiply by doodling and maybe I would've gone further in life. Because right now I feel like I'm just sort of wavering at the starting line like I was daydreaming when the "GO!" shot was fired. Oh wow, look at all those people run. Holy shit, cool shoes. Anyway, this is an instructional video on how to multiply numbers by counting the number of intersections in a corresponding line-doodle. I'm gonna give it a go, I'll report back.
Okay so apparently 241 x 18 = a dinosaur pushing a robot into a volcano. Sounds right to me!
Hit the jump FOR MY ACTUAL DOODLE and the how-to instructional video.
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This Japanese Multiplication Method Will Divide Your Brain By Zero [gizmodo]
Thanks to Ryne and Lydia, who still do math the old fashioned way: with a calculator.
Reader Comments
1. Dr. Chang - December 14, 2010 11:39 AM
You sirry white boy can not do maf in yo head rike me?
HAHA AT YOU
2. Jas - December 14, 2010 11:46 AM
Who doesn't love math!
"Do math... not meth. "
3. scott - December 14, 2010 11:47 AM
184 x 32 = gay sex
4. Jonathan - December 14, 2010 11:57 AM
No wonder they're all so good at math. Even their notebook doodles are calculations. American kids' notebook margins are nothing but boobs and guns.
5. McFeely Smackup - December 14, 2010 12:08 PM
My notebook doodles are usually guns that shoot boobs.
and i'm a 45 year old psychiatrist. Trust me, when you're talking to a shrink, you do NOT want to see what he's writing on his notepad.
6. Jonathan - December 14, 2010 12:09 PM
Also: I can say that because as a young kid in a US public school, my margins were nothing but boobs and guns, with the occasional ninja stick figure war that spanned several pages at a time. Although granted not only did I still get A's in math, but those doodles fed my creative side and got me into studying art more seriously and later becoming a professional cartoonist, but still.
7. Jonathan - December 14, 2010 12:09 PM
@5: I figured it was either boobs or grocery lists.
8. turd ferguson - December 14, 2010 12:12 PM
haha who the hoff (howard stern anyone) would waste their time doing all that extra work. GW you need to invest into some more attractive people on you site YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!
-turd
p.s. go to chive and steal their women
9. blah - December 14, 2010 12:19 PM
Eh. This is just a slower but graphical representation of how you would normally multiply.
10. Liquid Tension - December 14, 2010 12:20 PM
so 1 x 1 = 1 wooow!
11. J - December 14, 2010 12:23 PM
I've yet to see anyone kicked out of architecture school bc of "the math". Draw up a giant phallic tower, then ship it off to the engineers to find out its struc loads. DONE
12. ToxicSlop - December 14, 2010 12:30 PM
@5 - I am scared of a 45 year old psychiatrist named McFeely Smackup that 'draws guns that shoot boobs. What sort of operation are you running sir.
13. Ksurfiws - December 14, 2010 12:37 PM
241 x 18 = The Mona Lisa?
WTF is that Masterpiece?
14. cocoa j - December 14, 2010 1:43 PM
GW!!!! you are an artiste!
15. Shelbon - December 14, 2010 1:49 PM
@13 Look in my trousers and you will find your answer
16. bug - December 14, 2010 2:01 PM
Get a calculator you lazy f**k!
17. I never back down - December 14, 2010 2:08 PM
@16 that makes no sense, it would be lazy to get a calculator as this takes more time.
Also I have done this for many years are people just now finding out about it?
18. AYO - December 14, 2010 2:11 PM
if they are so smart why havent they discover calculators :P
19. ciao - December 14, 2010 2:13 PM
Chuck Norris does it with his fist.
20. doodley do - December 14, 2010 2:50 PM
wat about 1 x 1 ?
21. uh, yeah - December 14, 2010 3:25 PM
@21 - 1X1 would just be an X with only 1 intersecting point making the answer 1.
22. Kevin - December 14, 2010 3:49 PM
I hate the way the 9 looks too much like a g.
23. yan - December 14, 2010 3:55 PM
Try 98 times 756...
24. JJtoob - December 14, 2010 7:09 PM
Liar!!! You said there would be a how-to instructional video, but all I saw was this kid doing math with a worse method than abacus (click my name). Show us how you made the image GW!
25. Kelehendros - December 14, 2010 7:19 PM
you guys dont have a sub-processor? Interesting *digitally records information*
26. doodley do - December 14, 2010 7:20 PM
i guess that sort of made sense...
27. JJtoob - December 14, 2010 7:25 PM
Damn, I thought the link would work...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6s-ulE6LY
28. Nick - December 14, 2010 8:19 PM
How the hell do they divide?!?!?!?!?!
29. Kat - December 14, 2010 8:39 PM
That takes longer to do than just multiplying it the old fashion way... though it's interesting to know you CAN do that.
30. . - December 14, 2010 9:46 PM
Totally Photoshoped.
31. justin - December 15, 2010 12:27 AM
What if one of the numbers is a 0?
32. flamefreak - December 15, 2010 1:45 AM
Why don't they teach this in America?!? seriously..
33. AndyMac - December 15, 2010 4:36 AM
@ 31 - Thats the only flaw in their plan - they're a bit sensitive about it, so Shhhhh!
34. Android Boy - December 15, 2010 5:44 AM
Please don't kill me GW ! :C
35. Riku - December 15, 2010 6:01 AM
I showed this to my friend. He told me to do 789 x 798. Then I was like :|
36. ChainSm0kerTM - December 15, 2010 6:47 AM
First!
37. tommy verciti - December 15, 2010 6:56 AM
GW how long did you spend working on that awesome picture?
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Why don't you visit goscrewyourelfintheass.org?
41. OmikronApex - December 15, 2010 3:54 PM
You guys do all realize that this method is slow as hell, don't you? Espacialy when the numbers get bigger than 999. So: FAIL!!!!
42. k - December 18, 2010 4:26 AM
do 100 x 23