magic !!

people will admire you !

whats with the exclamation marks boys?

do you think this is a picnic

I love it.

What's with the unecessary spacing of punctuation ?

looks like the method will only work with numbers /w products less than 10 for each digit, but still quite smart

nice but how would one do

say 10 x 10
( one line over another , one intersection so 1 and then add two zeroes after that ? )

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." Leonardo da Vinci

muy elegante?

as you can read from my writing, i am not much of a drawing artist either.

this is how you check above is correct.
line1; add #'s take 9's out
line; add #'s take 9's out
in this case 7 X 1 = 7
last line; add #'s take 9's out it should equal 7.
even more elegance..