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Re:Ethiopian Binary Math by mistercow on Saturday October 05, 2013 @10:36PM (#6502851)
How is this method faster than counting them out, when the end result is 238 stones that you have to count in order to know the answer?
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Re:Ethiopian Binary Math by DanBC on Sunday October 06, 2013 @11:45AM (#6504390)
try it for 57 * 48
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Re:Ethiopian Binary Math by mistercow on Sunday October 06, 2013 @02:14PM (#6504855)
How is that an answer? In the end you're still going to be counting out 2736 stones either way. In the shaman's algorithm, you'll end up doing so twice and some change, in a much more complicated and easily screwed up algorithm.
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Re:Ethiopian Binary Math by DanBC on Sunday October 06, 2013 @02:36PM (#6504943)
Does anextio's reply here help? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6503669)
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