See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right? Around 1956, the famous ...

You probably haven’t had to do longhand math in years, but you do mental math every day. Or maybe you google math problems ten times a day, because you’ve forgotten how to do any math beyond your ...

Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it. On March 18, two researchers described the fastest method ever discovered for multiplying two ...