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Shifting and adding to get multiplication values?

Fundamentally, you're just doing long multiplication, as you learnt in school except in binary, rather than decimal. … In decimal, multiplication by $10^k$ is just shifting left $k$ digits and padding with zeros. …
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Could all CPU instructions get fundamentally faster if a better multiplication method was de...

New multiplication algorithms only offer a practical improvement for numbers with huge numbers of bits and probably don't beat existing algorithms until you're dealing with numbers with thousands or even … Also, note that Harvey and van der Hoeven "make no attempt to... exhibit a practical multiplication algorithm" (page 2 of their preprint). …
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