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russian peasant multiplication

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English

Syllables
rus-sian -peas-an-t -mul-ti-pli-ca-tion
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
28
Letters
10
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of multiplication in which the powers of two in the decomposition of the multiplicand are found by writing it on the left and progressively halving the left column, discarding any remainder, until the value is 1 (or −1, in which case the eventual sum is negated), while doubling the right column.

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What does russian peasant multiplication mean?
A form of multiplication in which the powers of two in the decomposition of the multiplicand are found by writing it on the left and progressively halving the left column, discarding any remainder, until the value is 1 (or −1, in which case the eventual sum is negated), while doubling the right column.

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