You wouldn’t use this algorithm when calculating a tip, but when it comes to multiplying large numbers, Karatsuba’s method was a big advance. And once Karatsuba opened the door to faster ...

A TikTok video of a novel, ancient multiplication method has gone viral. While the user, jesslouisec, calls the method Japanese multiplication and some mathematicians say it’s “Vedic ...

The multiplication algorithm in question takes advantage of a discovery that was the first advance in multiplication made in thousands of years. The traditional grade-school method for multiplication ...

Further research has refined common-multiplicand multiplication methods to accelerate exponentiation by substantially lowering the number of individual multiplications required [3].

From classrooms to kitchen tables, debates about math education are never far away. Should teachers drill multiplication ...