Multiplication is the easiest nontrivial arithmetic function (Q1066671)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3926240
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3926240 |
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Multiplication is the easiest nontrivial arithmetic function (English)
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1985
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It is shown that fixed point multiplication can be reduced to the evaluation of any member of a very large class of functions including most of the nontrivial functions used in practice. That means that whenever any such function can be evaluated by a Boolean circuit of size S(n), multplication can be done with O(S(n)) Boolean operations, as well.
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integer multiplication
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fixed point multiplication
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Boolean circuit
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Boolean operations
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