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Re:I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00 by nickdrozd on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:44PM (#19949344)
Apparently the seminar was held "in the autumn of 1960" [1], so "within a week" seems safely within 1960. That said, I will happily award 0x$0.50 to anyone who can come up with conclusive proof that the algorithm was discovered in 1961. Karatsuba himself is dead though, so such evidence will not be easy to find.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258001835_The_compl...

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Re:I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00 by HumanHater on Sunday May 19, 2019 @07:59AM (#19952870)
> The Karatsuba algorithm is a fast multiplication algorithm. It was discovered by Anatoly Karatsuba in 1960 and published in 1962.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm

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