Another Monkey

January 16, 2012, 3:30 pm
Filed under: math, thinking | Tags: counting calculating

The slider is a circular arc. If you made a circle all the way around, there’s no telling where the multiplication ends.

Here’s what an article I’m reading says:

the entire multiplication table forms a 45 degree-45 degree-90 degree triangle formed by the factors

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Actually, when you go beyond 45 degrees, the pointer stays in the same position, which in the toy monkey would be one squared.

Comment by Mark January 16, 2012 @ 3:39 pm

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