In 1960, Andrey Kolmogorov posed a seemingly impossible challenge at a seminar at Moscow State University: could there be a ...

Evaluating the efficiency of computer algorithms is complex, but we will take a simple approach that relies on two assumptions. First, the multiplication of two large numbers can always be broken down ...

To this end, [Ken Shirriff] set about reverse engineering the 8086’s multiplication algorithm. [Ken]’s efforts were achieved by using die photos of the 8086 chip.