Karatsuba algorithm

English

Etymology

Discovered by Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba in 1960 and published in 1962.

Noun

Karatsuba algorithm (plural Karatsuba algorithms)

1. (computing theory) A fast multiplication algorithm that reduces the multiplication of two n-digit numbers to at most $n^{\log _{2}3}\approx n^{1.585}$ single-digit multiplications.