Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians. But is this really the best way to multiply two big numbers together? Around 1956, the famous ...

This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ? If you divide 8 by 2 first, you get 16, but if you multiply 2 by (2 + 2) first, you get 1. So, which answer is right?

Most people know just one way to multiply two large numbers by hand. Typically, they learned it in elementary school. They’re often surprised to find that there are a variety of ways to do ...

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Forget your times tables – mathematicians have found a new, faster way to multiply two numbers together. The method, which works only for whole numbers, is a landmark result in computer science. “This ...

Struggling with mental math? Students from class 6 to 10 now have a clever way to simplify tricky multiplication problems. The “doubling square” method turns large or complex calculations into quick, ...

The process of multiplying three numbers together is similar to the process of multiplying two numbers, but it has one extra step. First, you multiply two of the numbers, then you multiply the third ...