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This page is redirected from russian peasant multiplication, but a google search for the exact phrase russian:peasant:multiplication scores 570 and peasant:multiplication only 689. To me this implies that it is nearly 5 times as likely to be refered to as russian peasant multiplication in english. Moving the page is not really worth while, but a recognition of the alternative name in the text seems to make sense to me.

On the subject of the proposed merge with ancient egyptian multiplication, the two techniques, while relying on the same fundemental mathematical principal, are very different in practice. These multiplication schemes are specifically about practice, not theory. The people that use/used these techniques use them empirically.

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