Steve Multiplication hated how long it took to add things up manually. «If only there were a quick way to calculate how many I would have if I had a group of, say, seven things, and then that group tripled!» he said. He stared in frustration at in his living room table, upon which he'd placed several clocks all set to different time zones. It was his «times table», and Steve Multiplication was now only seconds away from a moment of insight that would change the world, and which still bears his name today.