If it takes a thousand years to prove a thesis that reduces the solution to a few minutes, what is gained?
assuming you don’t have a calculator? I think its safe to say that less than 0.00000165 % of the population on the planet will ever reference this article for a simpler way to multiply numbers of such largess.
Actually, one of the smallest numbers there is. Admittedly, one the largest numbers you will ever encounter, but there are infinitely more numbers larger than it, and only a finite number smaller.
Another solution in search of a problem.
Will it kill common core?
Times tables were drilled into me by the Domican nuns. At my advanced age, I’m still pretty fast. As for no calculators or computers to aid in multiplication, I still can use my slide rule with good speed. Admittedly, it can’t be used for ALL multiplication and division, but it works.
BTW, does anyone still have theirs. Mine is a Sun Hemmi for Chemical Engineers (back side has atomic weights and numbers, plus temperature and pressure conversion scales. No log functions). Bought it in Hong Kong for $5; cost in US was $16 back in 1960.
“For most of us, the way we multiply relatively small numbers is by remembering our times tables – an incredibly handy aid first pioneered by the Babylonians some 4,000 years ago.”
Let me update the above:
“For most of us, the way we multiply relatively small numbers is by remembering our times tables – an incredibly handy aid first pioneered by the Babylonians some 4,000 years ago, but NO LONGER considered necessary by today’s ‘enlightened’ public schools (the same schools that most conservatives send their kids to) in the United States which instead rely on ‘technology’ to do the calculations.”
re: “Mathematicians Have Discovered an Entirely New Way to Multiply Large Numbers”
Adding. Logarithms. ?
Mathematicians Have Discovered an Entirely New Way to Multiply Large Numbers
It is called Common Core.
Any answer is correct..... : )
Well duh...
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