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2. Multiplication table - Wikipedia

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   The oldest known multiplication tables were used by the Babylonians about 4000 years ago. [2] However, they used a base of 60. [2] The oldest known tables using a base of 10 are the Chinese decimal multiplication table on bamboo strips dating to about 305 BC, during China's Warring States period. [2] "Table of Pythagoras" on Napier's bones [3]

3. Multiplication algorithm - Wikipedia

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   It requires memorization of the multiplication table for single digits. This is the usual algorithm for multiplying larger numbers by hand in base 10. A person doing long multiplication on paper will write down all the products and then add them together; an abacus-user will sum the products as soon as each one is computed.

4. Multiplication - Wikipedia

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   Multiplication can also be thought of as scaling. Here, 2 is being multiplied by 3 using scaling, giving 6 as a result. Animation for the multiplication 2 × 3 = 6 4 × 5 = 20. The large rectangle is made up of 20 squares, each 1 unit by 1 unit. Area of a cloth 4.5m × 2.5m = 11.25m 2; 4 ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ × 2 ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ = 11 ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠

5. Lookup table - Wikipedia

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   In 493 AD, Victorius of Aquitaine wrote a 98-column multiplication table which gave (in Roman numerals) the product of every number from 2 to 50 times and the rows were "a list of numbers starting with one thousand, descending by hundreds to one hundred, then descending by tens to ten, then by ones to one, and then the fractions down to 1/144 ...

6. Elementary arithmetic - Wikipedia

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   6.2 Example of multiplication for multiple-digit factors. ... Toggle the table of contents. ... times 10) and 2 gets 32. The quotient of 32 and 8 is 4, which is ...

7. Trachtenberg system - Wikipedia

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   The method for general multiplication is a method to ... In this same way the tables for subtracting digits from 10 or 9 are to be memorized. ... (10 − 2) × 2 ...