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This Guy Found a Faster Way to Multiply—Because the One You Know Is Ridiculously Slow

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it remained unproven for ...

The Russian Way to Multiply Is So Much Cooler Than Ours

Try this ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles, also called Egyptian or Russian math—where you repeatedly halve one ...
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This Guy Found a Faster Way to Multiply—Because the One You Know Is Ridiculously Slow

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it remained unproven for decades. Mathematicians from Australia and France have ...