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Wednesday Afternoon Diversion: Japanese Multiplication

By Kevin Robinson in Arts & Entertainment on Jan 25, 2012 9:00PM

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We've never been very good at math here at Chicagoist, and we're still not totally sure how this works, or how anyone figured out this method, but it's a pretty clever way to do multiplication without having to remember to carry and borrow.