{"id":168,"date":"2012-01-27T19:35:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T01:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linesoftangency.wordpress.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2012-01-27T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T01:35:58","slug":"flippin-wizardry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chrislusto.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Flippin' Wizardry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Because I'm a math teacher, my services as demystifier of mathematical phenomena are sometimes requested by family and friends who find themselves sufficiently mystified by something mathematical.\u00a0 Recently I've had a few people send me the link to the YouTube video, \"How do japanese multiply<em><\/em>??\" [<em>sic<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Based on some of the comments (e.g., \"What the [flip] is this wizardry?\"), there are at least a few people in the world who might like an explanation.\u00a0 Here's the original video, followed by my narrated solution, plus, for the nerdily inclined, a bonus example in base 6!\u00a0 Can you imagine anything more fun?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Actually, if you want a much more interesting multiplication algorithm, take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Multiply-Using-the-Russian-Peasant-Method\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Peasant Multiplication<\/a>.\u00a0 Now <em>that's <\/em>some [binary] wizardry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e-P5RGdjICo]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">...and the response...<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=85Vd0NpL32k&amp;context=C3a288dcADOEgsToPDskJDE7sA83vY-q75bAdFKWfZ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I'm a math teacher, my services as demystifier of mathematical phenomena are sometimes requested by family and friends who find themselves sufficiently mystified by something mathematical.\u00a0 Recently I've had a few people send me the link to the YouTube video, \"How do japanese multiply??\" [sic] Based on some of the comments (e.g., \"What the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,32,39,44],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-musing","tag-algorithms","tag-math","tag-multiplication","tag-place-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chrislusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chrislusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chrislusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chrislusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chrislusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chrislusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chrislusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chrislusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chrislusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}