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Sure, it's an artifact of base 10 Isaac Send a noteboard - 29/02/2012 08:24:18 PM
Same as that trick of multiplying by 9 where the digits add up to 9 or 18 or 27 and so on at very high digits like 9x65802= 592,218... 5+2+9+2+1+8=27=9*3

That phenomenon for 9 will show up in any base for the digit proceed '10', like seven for Octal or 15 for Hexadecimal. It's really no different then multiplying by 5 and always getting the last digit to be 5 or 0, in base 16 any multiple of 8 ends in 8 or 0.

What's going on here is that you can think of 11 more as 10+1, essentially the result of Y x 11 is really 10Y + Y, or Y with a zero following plus itself. If you tihnk of that two digit number as AB then the classic add up way will be:

AB0
+ AB
A(A+B)B

where you just have carry a 1 onto the first A if A+B>9 and this would hold true in other bases besides base 10, with their equivalent of 11, the number one higher than the Base, same as the 9 trick will hold for numbers one less than the Base. For instance in Octal (Base 8 ) 9 is written as 11, and 9x13=117 is written as 11x15=165 ---> A(A+B)B ---> 1 (1+5) 5

There's also a tricks for 6, 6 x Y always ends in Y for any even Y (6 x 8 = 48, 6x 4 =24) and that will carry over into any even-number base system when working with the digit one higher than the halfway point (5 for base 10) as it's just carrying one extra off to x5 (or midpoint of the base) a number of times equal to that number. 6 times any odd number actually just adds that odd number to 5 for the last digit, 6x3= 18 or 15+3, etc.

Edit: seriously we've got to get rid of that 8) makes drives me nuts
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This message last edited by Isaac on 29/02/2012 at 08:36:56 PM
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Does anybody know this math trick? - 29/02/2012 07:29:58 PM 1028 Views
Sure, it's an artifact of base 10 - 29/02/2012 08:24:18 PM 809 Views
Your own fault for doing lots of math. - 29/02/2012 08:37:39 PM 800 Views
More my fault for having a algebra textbook that obsessed with abnormal base calculations - 29/02/2012 09:19:15 PM 807 Views
I think I had one like that one year. - 02/03/2012 04:16:26 AM 945 Views
Your method for 11 might be even quicker! - 29/02/2012 08:46:44 PM 625 Views
I think it's basically the same method, but if not enjoy - 29/02/2012 09:16:21 PM 609 Views
That's what I've always used. - 29/02/2012 09:24:05 PM 674 Views
Squares and factoring are also your friend. - 02/03/2012 03:56:08 AM 792 Views
Yes: I was taught it in school aged 11 or 12. *NM* - 29/02/2012 11:33:22 PM 253 Views
That is wayyyyy more complicated than 10x+x. But if it works for you, I am happy. *NM* - 01/03/2012 07:16:40 AM 273 Views
Not really - 01/03/2012 04:24:20 PM 608 Views
That's, uh... the same thing. - 01/03/2012 08:38:03 PM 628 Views
Again, it's the doing it in your head thing - 01/03/2012 10:27:01 PM 716 Views
Yes. It's called multiplication. *NM* - 02/03/2012 12:40:20 AM 354 Views
Har har har. Why even comment? *NM* - 02/03/2012 05:15:05 AM 252 Views

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