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CURIOUS FIGURING. It’s a Way the Russian Peasant Has. and It's an Enigma. A UNIQUE WAY TO MULTIPLY. It la Simplicity Itself and Absolutely Accurate, but the Why and Where fore of the Method and Its Results Are a Puzzle to Mathematicians. This Is not n meaningless. freaky twister of a puzzle. But It Is a puzzle. It Is the method by which Russian peasants multiply, and ns yet the boasted mental superiority of America cnnnot solve the simple riddle of the Slav. Suppose you want to multiply two numbers together. Divide one of the numbers by 2, ienorhiK the frac tions. Continue the process until the divided column reaches one. Then dou ble the other number aud continue the process until it equals in lines the first column. Then whenever a number is even in the first column strike it out, together with its corresponding num ber in the second column. Add the sec ond column, and, lo, the answer! Now. why does it do ItV There seems to be no reason for it, but what is it’/ Can you work It out? It is infallible. It has never been known to fall. But what principle of mathematics is behind it all? Perhaps it is some queer freak of numbers, some one says, but such things are not to be turned aside with such generali ties. Mathematics is not built upon so lax a system. There is some rule be hind It all. Take the simple multiple 12 bv 10. Obviously the answer is 120. Try it the Russian way. Place 12 in the first column aud 10 in the second. Divide 22 by 2 and multiply 10 by 2 aud place the respective answers beneath the sums from which they were derived. It will stand 0 aud 20. Dividing 0 by 2 equals 3. and multiplying 20 by 2 equals 40. Continuing. 3 divided by 2 and throwing away all fractions will be 1, while 40 multiplied by 2 will be 80. Now strike out all the numbers in the first column which are even and with It their parallels in the second column—12 and 0 will go out. leaving the last two parallel results. Ignoring the first column and addiug the num bers in the second, the answer will be the result of 40 aud 80. or 120. The questions are: Who ever worked It out? How did he start? Now try working the problem by put ting 10 in the first column and sub jecting it to the dividing and 12 to the muJtiplj*ing. It will result like this: Ten and 12 will become 5 and 24, which will in turn be changed to 2 aud 48 and finally into 1 and IH5. Then, striking out the numbers 10 and 2 with their corresponding utimbers 12 and 48, leaving the second column figures 24 and 9G to be added—this becomes 120. There Is no escaping It- No matter how large the score, it comes out right with distressing surety. Take the odd numbers. Perhaps ther* is some twist in the scheme that applies to even numbers. Take 25 and 15. Going right down the column they become 12 and 30; then 0 and CO: then 3 and 120; then 1 and 240: 12 and G go out, takiug with them 30 and CO. -Add 15. 120 and 240. Answer. 375. Multiply 25 by 15 ac- cording to our methods. Correct—375. Now, why Is it that the even numbers must be eliminated on the right side when they do not count at all in the addition? It is plain to be seen that all the numbers in the second column will be even, hut by what freak of calculation are those corresponding to the even numbers In the first column ot uo con sequence when the correct sum is to be obtained? Where no even number results in the first column, ns in 15 x 13. there Is no comDllcation; 15 and 13 in the process become 7 and 20, then 3 and .52 and finally 1 and 104. Adding 13, 20. 52 and 104 equals 195. the correct sum. There can be no multiplication In fig ures which will divide down to a place where there are no odd numbers, for the final nunjber must always ofyneces 8lty be 1. In the sum 10 x 4, 10 divides itself Into 8, 4. 2 and 1 succes sively, while 4 becomes 8. 10, 32 and 64. AH of the pairs are crossed out, with the exception of 1 nnd 64. In that vase the addition ot the second column will be 04. Despite the puzzling nature of this formula, there Is some mathematical principle by which it can be explained. There Is Borne rule awaiting the fertile minds of the workers by which this “stumper" can be demonstrated to be simplicity ItselL Another qulzzer: Why must frac tions be discarded? How is it that the result will be true when several units are cast aside? For example, consider | the number 47. Dividing by 2 the result will be 23. One whole unit .is thrown away. Twenty-three becomes by the same process 11. another unit I discarded. Eleven resolves itself Into B. making the third unit passed by. The next step results in 2 nDd then 1. but I *hy Is it that these three units count I for nothing? The mere fact that the explanation 11-" near, that the whole thing is simple I l f the key can be found, is one that l r annot help bnt draw attention to this luovei means of adding.—Philadelphia 1 North American. 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