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Multiplying 2 x 2 is easy. But multiplying two numbers with more than a billion digits each — that takes some serious computation. The multiplication technique taught in grade school may be simple, ...

This article was originally published by computer historian Ken Shirriff on his blog. Thanks to his kind permission, the article is reproduced here. Eine Übertragung ins Deutsche ist ebenfalls ...

Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right? At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this: Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians ...

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