Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right? At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this: Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians ...

Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians. Around 1956, the famous Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov conjectured that this is the best ...

This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ? If you divide 8 by 2 first, you get 16, but if you multiply 2 by (2 + 2) first, you get 1. So, which answer is right?

Since the early 1970s, Hewlett-Packard pocket calculators have proved popular with students, scientists and engineers. Most of their scientific calculators let you show more digits after the zero. For ...

When you multiply a number by a power, you are really just multiplying that number by itself a number of times equal to the power. This means that, for example, 2 multiplied by a power of 3 is the ...

Microsoft Excel manipulates data — that’s its purpose in a nutshell. Consequently, there are numerous ways to perform math operations, including multiplication. You can multiply literal values, you ...