[Artemisia] Multiplication

[Connor mac Michil]

Sarah Natividad wrote:
>> What is VI times IX ?
>>     
>
> LIV, of course. ;)
>
> You can do it on a multi-tiered counting board.  You don't need those crazy
> "cipher" things that the algorists are always going on about.
>
>   
Of course, anyone that knows that 'question' knows that the 'answer' is 
actually XLII (or XXXXII, depending on your preference for writing out 
'the number').

And no, don't tell me my math is wrong.  It's not for a variety of 
reasons. :)

Conchobhar (who knows the answer, the question, and that you cannot 
actually make the question in the way that it was made ... and how the 
formula to derive the answer was corrupted)