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 ...
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 ...
The newest extra step that affluent parents are taking to give their kids a leg-up when applying for Ivy League schools involves learning math in the Russian style. The style was developed during the ...