An artificial intelligence created by the firm DeepMind has discovered a new way to multiply numbers, the first such advance in over 50 years ... of these algorithms could bring large performance ...

But is this really the best way to multiply two big numbers ... multiplication algorithm could do better than this. The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed, so some caution is warranted. It is ...

Perfecting that algorithm has been the key to breakthroughs in matrix multiplication efficiency over ... bringing it closer to the ideal value of 2, which represents the theoretical minimum number ...

Even for computers, the long multiplication algorithm, defined as n to the power of, could reportedly take months if each number had a billion digits. But in a new paper published on the document ...

For numbers with a thousand digits, Karatsuba’s method needs about 17 times fewer multiplications than long multiplication ... even Karatsuba’s algorithm is too slow. A real breakthrough ...

Even something as abstract as multiplying matrices (two-dimensional tables of numbers ... where it found a new algorithm for multiplying 4-by-4 matrices in 47 multiplication steps, an improvement over ...

The new method, called Linear-Complexity Multiplication (L-Mul), comes close to the results of FPM while using the simpler algorithm ... power that new AI chips bring every generation, true ...

almost as fast as reading the numbers from right to left,” said Martin Fürer, a mathematician at Pennsylvania State University who in 2007 created what was at the time the fastest multiplication ...

A pair of researchers have found a more efficient way to multiply grids of numbers, beating a record ... for more than 50 years for the matrix multiplication problem – a common operation in ...