❌ The Big X & the Secret History of Multiplication 📜 | Ciphers, Shakespeare & Ye Olde Math

Why do we use X for multiplication? ❌
And what does it have to do with Shakespeare, secret codes, and old-school arithmetic?

In this episode, Rob Eastaway dives into the curious history of the “Big X”, showing how symbols evolve — and how multiplication wasn’t always this simple.

🧮 Medieval math tricks
🔐 Cipher connections
🎭 Shakespearean context
✖️ And why we even say “times” to begin with!