Joblessness helps uncovering my hidden talents. Tuesday morning nothing better to do, I created this piece of art using MS Paint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If your little brains cant decipher it. It is our very own earth !!!!!!!!!!!! 
Posted by: Madhava Prakash at Indian Bloggies
As a kid I was very bad with numbers, rather I am no good even now. Just to make sure I clear the subjects involving numbers, my parents had taught me a few amazing improvisations. I still keep wondering how these things work so perfectly.
Cheat Code 4: Multiply by ‘9’
This one is simple and cool. To multiply any number between 1 and 9 by 9. Hold both the hands in front of your face, - fold the finger corresponding to number you are multiplying. ( For eg 4*9, fold the forth finger). Count the number of fingers before the folded finger (in this example 3) then count the fingers after the folder finger (in this example 6), answer is 36.
Cheat Code 3: Multiply by ‘11’
We all know to multiply any number with 10 – add ‘0’ to end of the number. There is an equally easy trick to multiply any two digit number with 11.
Take any two digit number, imagine a space between them, lets take an example 72.
7_2
Now add the two numbers together in that space
7(7+2)2 = 792 is the answer.
If the number in the middle results in a two digit number, just insert the second number in the sopace and add 1 to the first.
Example 74
7_4
7(7+4)4
(7+1)14 = 814
It works always
Cheat Code 2: Divide by ‘5’
If you want to divide any number by 5, just add the same number to itself and put a ‘dot’ before the last digit.
For example if you need to divide 12 by 5...12+12 = 24 and putting a dot befor last digit makes it 2.4
Cheat Code 1: Square of a number
If you need to square a 2 digit number ending in 5, you can do so very easily with this trick. Mulitply the first digit by itself + 1, and put 25 on the end. That is all!(25)2 = (2x(2+1)) & 25
2 x 3 = 6
625
This is all I remember. If you find it useful please leave me a small comment. It makes me feel good. Come on I am not the only dumb kid with numbers :).
Early moring Eric walkes into Madhav’s cube .....
Madhav : Good Morning .... How are you ??
Eric : Good and you ??
Madhav: Not Bad ... Thank you
Eric : Did you check the mail from An And ......
Madhav : wat @#$!@#$!@# (With my eye brows raised)?? Say that again
Eric : An And Mehta
Madhav : Oooooo Aaaanad
Eric : Madhav, .... you always trick me.... and teach me wrong stuff
Madhav : Excuse Me (Grrrr) !!!!! Wat wrong did i teach you .....
Eric (Pointing to a cabe across me): Wat do you call him ??
Madhav : Ananth ....
Eric : Both are written the same way .... Ananth and Anand ......one guy is.......... An Anth and other is Aaaanand ......!!!!
Felt like banging my head against the desk a dozen times. Americans gets Weird Doubts !!!!
1. He/She never bargains… No wonder things have become so costly!
2. When a cab/bus passes by and you see all the commuters in it are sleeping like they haven't slept for years…
3. Dilbert or Calvin is their favorite cartoon…
4. Words like issues, tracker, raising requests, buzz/ping, compile, delete [unlike erase or rub it off], onsite [n not abroad is what 'foreign land' is called] are the ones that would be used by 'default'…
5. Weekends are holy words… they are like a salvation one seeks for…
6. "Wazzzup", "Hows life?", are few obvious questions one will be greeted with which would be immediately followed by "how's work?"
7. Salaries, work etc are always better or in good shape in other companies than the one he/she is currently in…
8. They don't send or take things… they always forward them!
9. Drinking coffee is the most pleasurable thing they think they do in the entire day…
10. They seek a search engine in just almost everything they do… When I forget where I have kept my things at home the first thing that comes to my mind is "I wish there was a Google search for my room".
11. Mondays are always blue…
12. All of them will have a dream to do something in life and that something would never be what they are doing right now…
