This is NOT supposed to be a "better" way to do math, but simply a different process by which to do it. I was looking to create something that was visually pleasing/complicated but still solved the basic function. I looked at the different visual maths, and armed with my primary school knowledge of multiplication I spent a few hours working with shapes and numbers and I devised this little creation. I wasn't looking at efficiency but at a way to manipulate shapes to find a more hifalutin method that would look "pretty.".