This is sort of a continuation from my post about the Recamán Sequence. There was another video a family member showed me about how a checkerboard as a calculator.
The idea is fairly simple: you can find the multiplication of two numbers if you represent them in binary, and shift the intersection of those numbers on a grid.
So… here goes.
x =
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ms
It’s not perfect. There’s some additional animation that I could put, and there’s the whole division & powers part that I didn’t bother doing. However, for now, this is all I have time for.
Take it or leave it.