Karatsuba algorithm

English

Etymology

Discovered by Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba in 1960 and published in 1962.

Noun

Karatsuba algorithm (plural Karatsuba algorithms)

  1. (computer science) A fast multiplication algorithm that reduces the multiplication of two n-digit numbers to at most nlog23≈n1.585 single-digit multiplications.
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