Talk:Peasant multiplication

The user must also know what is odd numbers (:-}

A section of analysis of how this actually works would be good. I daresay some thought will reveal it, but sadly chores beckon! GRAHAMUK 01:10, 13 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * I've added a sentence that will hopefully clarify how it works; more could probably added by someone more qualified to do so. ThereIsNoSteve 01:39, 13 Oct 2003 (UTC)

This page is redirected from russian peasant multiplication, but a google search for the exact phrase russian:peasant:multiplication scores 570 and peasant:multiplication only 689. To me this implies that it is nearly 5 times as likely to be refered to as russian peasant multiplication in english. Moving the page is not really worth while, but a recognition of the alternative name in the text seems to make sense to me.

On the subject of the proposed merge with ancient egyptian multiplication, the two techniques, while relying on the same fundemental mathematical principal, are very different in practice. These multiplication schemes are specifically about practice, not theory. The people that use/used these techniques use them empirically.

pcrtalk 22:37, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with pcr, above. However, Egyptian mathematics is quite long, and Ancient Egyptian multiplication is rather short. I don't see any obvious ways for it to grow. Might we just merge all the content from Ancient Egyptian multiplication into Egyptian mathematics? Tom Harrison Talk 20:13, 6 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Tom Harrison's suggestion looks like the best approach. Put it all in Egyptian mathematics. Maestlin 03:20, 7 May 2006 (UTC)