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 ...

You can perform multiplication in simple µPs using low-level instructions. This article is condensed from the forthcoming book, Bebop Bytes Back (Reference 1), which will be available within the next ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...