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mistercow
on Oct 6, 2013
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Ethiopian Binary Math
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?
DanBC
on Oct 6, 2013
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try it for 57 * 48
mistercow
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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.
DanBC
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Does anextio's reply here help? (
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6503669
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