Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

karatsuba algorithm

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: karat-sub-a al-go-rithm
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fast multiplication algorithm that reduces the multiplication of two n-digit numbers to at most n^(log ₂₃)≈n^(1.585) single-digit multiplications.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Karatsuba algorithms (plural)

Questions

What does karatsuba algorithm mean?: A fast multiplication algorithm that reduces the multiplication of two n-digit numbers to at most n^(log ₂₃)≈n^(1.585) single-digit multiplications.
Where does karatsuba algorithm come from?: Discovered by Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba in 1960 and published in 1962.

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