Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

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19 is only 1 away from 20, so you prefer to start by multiplying 20 times 5, which equals 100. Then we need to take away a squadron of 5, because there are actually only 19 squadrons, not 20. 100 take ...

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convert the numbers from standard form into decimal form or ordinary numbers complete the calculation convert the answer back into standard form Calculate \((4 \times 10^9) \times (7 \times 10^{-3})\) ...