RequiemI want to fill my Pokedex with other languages . SpinarakFemale 3 . I would appreciate an Adamant ditto . 3 <| sep |> You know it . I got a raging boner . <| sep |> Alright , rblackpeopletwitter , get ready to learn how to multiply any 2 digit numbers in your head I ' m on mobile , so formatting may suck . Let ' s start with 23 x 24 . Imagine the first number , 23 as two sets of horizontal sticks per digit And the 24 the same way , but vertical And picture their intersection with 4 quadrants . And that illustrates the answer to the multiplication problem 552 . How by counting the line intersections . Let ' s start in the lower right quadrantThis illustrates the 1 st digit . The 3 x 4 comes from the 24 x 23 , so you know the 1 s digit is 2 , but you carry the 1 to the 10 s digit . Let ' s look at the carried over 1 , the bottom left quadrant and the top right quadrant carried 1 Counting the intwsections plu the carried one we get 15 . Using the same logic as the first digit , we can conclude that the 10 s digit is 5 and we can carry another 1 to the next stage . Lets . looj at the top left quadrant and the last calculation . Carried 1 Again , applying the same method , the third digit is 5 . Edit a lot of formatting . Could someone tell me how to display hyphens ? From here , we can correctly conclude 23 x 24 is 552 . This method works across multiple digits of multiplication , but gets too complex to keep track of . This method is also not really a trick , bit an easy mental illustration of what happens with multiplication on paper . Edit formatting