This page is a tutorial on how iconic container numbers work. page 
Addition is putting Outside, while Multiplication is putting Inside.
The container numbers on this page are expressed as unit-ensembles with depth-value. The Unit-ensembles page describes how to represent numbers as collections of identical tokens. The Depth-value Notation page shows how enclosures can be used to group units. Container numbers represent magnitude by enclosing units in containers, that is, by drawing circles, boxes, or other enclosures around units. Each container multiplies the value of its contents by the base of the number system. The base is usually 10 (the decimal system) or 2 (the binary system). Here we will show binary container numbers in order to focus on how iconic arithmetic works.
The Image shows the binary container number 35. Both decimal and binary container numbers are illustrated in the Iconic Calculator section. The Container Algebra page has a more complete discussion of the algebraic structure of container numbers. Finally, Network numbers work just like container numbers, but network numbers use signal propagation rather than containment as an active model of computation. Block numbers also work like container numbers, but using yet another type of spatial representation, three-dimensional stacks of blocks.