Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right? At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this: Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians ...
We’ve often noted that whether had ancient man known binary, we could all count to 1023 on our fingers. We thought about that while watching [Numberphile’s] latest video about “Russian” multiplication ...
When you multiply decimals by integers (whole numbers), you can use everything you already know about multiplying multi-digit numbers. You can use written or mental methods to multiply decimals by ...