Naively this looks like it could be used for any base number system, so from the example, 9*8 looks like it's a raw brute force using this method, but if conver

Naively this looks like it could be used for any base number system, so from the example, 9*8 looks like it's a raw brute force using this method, but if converted to something smaller, like base 5 as a random example, it could easily be made simpler. This could also pretty easily be implemented in code as well, although it would almost certainly be less efficient than just letting your language and processor do the math it was already optimized to do.