Missing women--revisited
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Missing a trick: Karatsuba revisited
There are a variety of ways of applying the Karatsuba idea to multi-digit multiplication. These apply particularly well in the context where digits do not use the full word-length of the computer, so that partial products can be safely accumulated without fear of over ow. Here we re-visit the arbitrary degree version of Karatsuba and show that the cost of this little-known variant has been over...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1297