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jdhwosnhwlast Sunday at 10:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

I was under the impression that because the grade school technique we learn is really just convolution over the digits, the fastest algorithms achieve o(n logn) via fourier transforms. Is that not the case?


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alok-gyesterday at 12:32 AM

Can you explain some more? Thanks.

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calflast Sunday at 10:12 PM

Jesus, I took 4 years of Electrical Engineering and at no point did any professor make this brilliant analogy. It would have helped many students, including myself.