If the two numbers each have N digits, that's N 2 (or N x N) multiplications altogether. In the example above, N is 3, and we had to do 3 2 = 9 multiplications.

Indeed, when it comes to multiplying two numbers, the best (or fastest) way to do it is often far from obvious. One particularly intriguing and efficient multiplication algorithm was developed in ...

If the two numbers each have N digits, that’s N 2 (or N x N) multiplications altogether. In the example above, N is 3, and we had to do 3 2 = 9 multiplications.

The Schönhage–Strassen algorithm, developed by two German mathematicians, was actually the fastest method of multiplication from 1971 through 2007.Although a faster method was developed in 2007 ...

Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it. On March 18, two researchers described the fastest method ever discovered for multiplying two ...

The second subfield thinks on a smaller scale. Soon after Strassen’s work, the Israeli American computer scientist Shmuel Winograd showed that Strassen had reached a theoretical limit: It’s not ...

The findings may represent the 'fastest multiplication algorithm mathematically possible' Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

In long multiplication, we have to multiply every digit of the first number by every digit of the second number. If the two numbers each have N digits, that’s N 2 (or N x N) multiplications altogether ...

Mathematicians have reportedly discovered a new way of multiplying two numbers together. The new technique is for really large numbers, and if it passes a peer-review, could be the fastest ...