Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose three modular multiplication algorithms that use only the IEEE 754 binary floating-point operations. Several previous studies have used floating-point operations to ...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has introduced several additions to the new edition of Class 7 textbooks. The Part 2 of the Ganita Prakash books released recently ...

As of July, 2022, there is also a C library that checks casting, multiplication, division, addition and subtraction for all combinations of signed and unsigned 32-bit and 64-bit integers. The C ...

Multiplication in Python may seem simple at first—just use the * operator—but it actually covers far more than just numbers. You can use * to multiply integers and floats, repeat strings and lists, or ...

Intel:registered: HE Acceleration Library is an open-source library which provides efficient implementations of integer arithmetic on Galois fields. Such arithmetic is prevalent in cryptography, ...

A GIMPS survey has discovered a prime number with over 41 million digits, surpassing the previous record-holder by more than 16 million digits. Reading time 2 minutes Move aside 2 82,589,933-1, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools have proved to be highly effective in tackling various tasks that entail analyzing data and making accurate predictions. Despite their ...

Loves emerging tech, languages such as Python, JavaScript, Solidity & Haskell. Writes about Web3. Works at Lumos Labs. We’ve all learned about floating point numbers in school. As opposed to integers ...

Computer scientists have discovered a new way to multiply large matrices faster than ever before by eliminating a previously unknown inefficiency, reports Quanta Magazine. This could eventually ...