Japanese Multiplication Method

This is amazing.  Though only useful for lower numbers--it gets unwieldy at a point--this is pretty cool.  Basically what you do for something like 11x2, is draw two (single) lines in one direction (representing 1,1) and one double line (representing two) and count the intersections.  = 22

http://gizmodo.com/5713010/this-bewildering-japanese-multiplication-method-just-multiplied-my-brain-by-zero