Anita Ponsaing receives funding from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS). Most people will probably remember the times tables from primary school quizzes.

Multiplication tables are a fundamental building block of mathematics, essential for everything from quick mental calculations to understanding more complex concepts later on. However, for many ...

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The Tsinghua table places factors across the top row and down the far right column. From left to right, or from bottom to top, respectively, the values are ½, 1, 2 . . . 9, then 10, 20 . . . 90. The ...