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 ...

To this end, [Ken Shirriff] set about reverse engineering the 8086’s multiplication algorithm. [Ken]’s efforts were achieved by using die photos of the 8086 chip.

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