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On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 18:08:22 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

> On 3/23/2024 2:19 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> When numbers greater than 9 were introduced I misunderstood the
>> algorithm.
>> 
>>              19 X 24
>>            ______
>>             166
>>            48 ______
>>            4966
> 
> 
> What was _your_ algorithm? No idea how you got that result.

You're as bad as my third grade teacher.

4 x 9 is 36 
carry the 3
3 plus 1 is 4
4 x 4 is 16
166

2 x 9 is 18
carry the 1
1 + 1 is 2
2 x 2 is 4
48

You could say is was sort of a confusion about operator precedence.