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This Guy Just Found a Faster Way to Multiply
www.popularmechanics.com ^
| By David Grossman Oct 18, 2019
Posted on 10/21/2019 2:51:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Is it faster than my calculator?
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posted on
10/21/2019 2:57:36 PM PDT
by
MPJackal
("From my cold dead hands.")
To: Red Badger
his algorithm doesn’t work, so it is not faster...
wth...
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posted on
10/21/2019 2:58:15 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: Red Badger
great, we’ve needed something like this to read our utility bills
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posted on
10/21/2019 2:58:25 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: Red Badger
This Guy Just Found a Faster Way to Multiply
Maybe if you're a computer but it doesn't factor down to yours and mine math abilities............Title is misleading.
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posted on
10/21/2019 2:59:40 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
To: Red Badger
so what was the formula...the article alluded to an algorithm but I didn’t get it or see it
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:01:59 PM PDT
by
devane617
(Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
To: Red Badger
But can you build a interstellar space drive with it like you can with Italian Bistro math?
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:03:35 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Red Badger
Damn, I didn’t know this was gonna be about math.
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:04:25 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
To: Red Badger
Vedic math figured out how to multiply and divide large numbers 1000+ years ago. In the early 1900’s a fella who taught himself math was able to count to infinity...his answer -(1/12).
That answer shows up in quantum mechanics and string theory.
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:05:14 PM PDT
by
Republic_Venom
(It's time for some Republic Venom!)
To: Red Badger
Hasn’t this been done before. Thinking about the method by “ the Russian Jewish engineer Jakow Trachtenberg in order to keep his mind occupied while being in a Nazi concentration camp” over 70 years ago.
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:07:02 PM PDT
by
BaylorDad
(I can't always buy American, but when I can, it's not UAW!)
To: Red Badger
Multiplication is just convolution of strings of digits.
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:07:03 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
To: BaylorDad
Hasn’t this been done before. Thinking about the method by “ the Russian Jewish engineer Jakow Trachtenberg in order to keep his mind occupied while being in a Nazi concentration camp” over 70 years ago. That's exactly what I thought of too. The Trachtenberg Method of Multiplication.
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:08:00 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
To: MPJackal
Your calculator might use Karatsuba or Toom–Cook algorithms or some hybrid.
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:08:35 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: MPJackal
“Is it faster than my calculator?”
You didn’t read the article!
To: Red Badger
Cool. I’d like to see how this is done.
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:16:33 PM PDT
by
Karliner
(Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
"Damn, I didn’t know this was gonna be about math."
Take lots of vitamin E and ginseng, washed down with "Reckless Love" wine, and see if that helps.
To: BaylorDad
“Hasn’t this been done before. Thinking about the method by “ the Russian Jewish engineer Jakow Trachtenberg in order to keep his mind occupied while being in a Nazi concentration camp” over 70 years ago.”
Read the article!
To: Red Badger
I thought this was going to be a story about polygamy.
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:22:34 PM PDT
by
noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
To: Red Badger
They never showed an example.
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:26:06 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
To: Red Badger
Math?! I thought this was going to be another sperm donor thread.
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posted on
10/21/2019 3:26:52 PM PDT
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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