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Multiplication hits the speed limit

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A problem "around since antiquity" may have been resolved by a new algorithm.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 63, Issue 1
      January 2020
      90 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3377354
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