But Anatoly Karatsuba defied the odds, providing a breakthrough with what would come to be known as Karatsuba's Algorithm,a faster, more efficient way to multiply large numbers that would ...

In long multiplication, we have to multiply every digit of the first number by every digit of the second number. If the two numbers each have N digits, that's N2 (or N x N) multiplications altogether.

One week after DeepMind revealed an algorithm for multiplying numbers more efficiently, researchers have an even better way to carry out the task ...