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From: aho@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Ho)
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Subject: Re: Trachtenberg System of Math
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Date: 27 Oct 88 00:16:22 GMT
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In article <6232@june.cs.washington.edu> pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
>As a kid I read part of a book called "The Trachtenberg System of
>Math" or some such.  The basic idea was that there were several rules
>that could be applied to *all* numbers to do *very* fast (linear in
>number of digits?) multiplies and multi-row adds. 

this system sounds pretty interesting.
do you have a reference to the original source,
a book or a more recent magazine article, by any
chance.

thank you very much

alex

Alex Ho                                  
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