Timeline flooded with integer multiplication talk? Just buy a TI calculator
chrisalbon · x · 2026-10-09
Everyone's timeline is full of the new integer multiplication complexity result, discussing "sub n log n" and "kappa constants." The author's tongue-in-cheek advice: skip the complexity theory and just buy a Texas Instruments calculator.
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