We've found a quicker way to multiply really big numbers
- Written by David Harvey, Associate professor in mathematics, UNSW
If you thought multiplication tables at school were hard, imagine multiplying numbers with billions of digits.Shutterstock/Nina Buday
Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right?
At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this:
The long way to multiplication.David HarveyMethods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least...
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