Researchers call new multiplication algorithm galactic: purely theoretical
charles_irl · x · 2026-10-13
AI researchers Charles and Elan Rosenfeld discuss the recent integer multiplication algorithm breakthrough: even with improved constants, no one believes it yields a practical algorithm—especially since the result assumes arbitrary-precision multiplication, meaning it can only ever be information-theoretic.
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