Circle Multiplication is MAGIC!!

Edit: check out the link in the description to the original video I watched. Original text: Sorry, it took a while to upload, things got really busy with work. Hopefully, it can help some people out! ^^; On the plus side, it's over a month since I filmed this and I'm SUPER comfortable and able to do mental arithmetic (at least with whole numbers). And when I can't, I can quickly work through a problem by writing it out. :D

when i saw 'math' 'magic' and a wolf furry holding up a pentagram you better believe i clicked this video SO FAST

wish i had a big wolf to teach me math tricks when i was in school

how did i get here

Yep! This is why modular arithmetic is called clock arithmetic. It loops! Math is best learned with your favorite proofs❤ Good luck with your maths! I was randomly recommended this... I have a math degree... and watch furry content....

As a very math-y person who got recommended this video, I'll say this: You're exactly right that this is what mathematicians mean when they say that an equation is beautiful. It's all about the surprising simplicity of the logical patterns behind things. I wonder what you'd make of Paul Lockhart's famous essay "A Mathematician's Lament". It's an excellent (and very approachable!) critique of conventional math education from a mathematician's perspective.

Another math major here who watches both math and furry content separately and was randomly recommended this video. I had not really seen this way of memorizing the times table before! I saw you asking elsewhere in the comments about what people learn during a math degree. I am currently studying undergraduate pure math in the US and hope to eventually get a PhD in pure math and pursue a career in mathematics research and education. I think that math is one of the most interesting subjects out there, and the sheer breadth and depth to which mathematics has been explored over the millenia is just amazing to me. Here are some highlights of the higher math curriculum: - To vastly oversimplify, calculus is a way of turning physics and geometry problems into algebra problems. For example, in your first calculus class, you will learn a very general method for finding the area under basically any curve. For example, you will be able to prove the formula for the area of a circle. In later calculus classes, you'll learn how to think about motion in space (and even higher-dimensional space) algebraically, and how to compute the surface area of weird 3d objects like donuts. - Abstract algebra is a generalization of the concepts of algebra and arithmetic to all sorts of objects that behave differently from numbers. Modular arithmetic, which is deeply related to what you're doing here, fits under abstract algebra as it is the algebra of a number line that is wrapped up on itself to form a circle. You can also do algebra with things like motions and symmetries. - Set theory is a very abstract subject that builds on the most fundamental principles of logic to precisely and formally define everything we do in mathematics from the ground up. - Topology is like geometry, but squishy. Instead of measuring lengths and angles, you study more elusive properties of shapes like how many holes they have, how many dimensions they have, or whether or not one can be squished and bent to look like the other (Turns out a straw has one hole! We figured this out back in the late 1800s). I hope you're not intimidated by the vastness of mathematics! It's exciting, isn't it? :3

Were passing the final with this one boys

you have just unlocked a part of my brain that i did not know existed, thank you rambles the wolf

i think you're just looking at the final digit and if I'm right you can do this kind of cycle in any base and it's called the modulo, it basically looks at the remainder after dividing by some number if we take multiples of 3 modulo 5 for example you get 3, 1, 4, 2, 0 which are the remainders from 3 6 9 12 15 when divided by 5, it repeats itself in a cycle like with the circle in the video we count in base 10 typically and you can use those cycles and some clever little tricks to work out stuff like what the final digit of 3 to the power of 1851 is by taking modulo 10 (I'm not gonna do it cuz it's awkward but i have done it in the past)

Of course there are patterns lol, by many measures, maths is the study of patterns But yes, it's rather stupid that we're largely forced to memorize these things without ever expecting there might be a pattern. The kids who realize anyway get a massive boost straight off the bat and the others already start to get left behind.

You can do it! Coming from someone who sucked at math and is now acing a CS&MATH degree, if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.

Magic, also known as Geometry

I don't understand how drawing numbers on the corners of shapes help? Where is the logical correspondence between 0-2-4-6-8 and a pentagram?

Math is gorgeous how it work.

this is how people did math before calculus was invented. the ancient greeks would just draw a bunch of triangles and circles on the ground and then land 20 headshots. math is magic, it's the reason we have the trope of wizards

there's nothing shameful in not knowing. you can always learn. and learning and sharing your experience is anything but shameful. if it helped you, you are helping someone just by sharing! ps when u hold the paper up close to read it it looks like ur tryna figure out what's going on through sniffing it and it looks funny

hi cute British wolf guy

Oh my, your video certainly blown up, how do you feel about it? Personally, this wolfer thinks your method is pretty funs :3c

Yeah no, i cant see.