This page is redirected from russian peasant multiplication but a google search for the exact phrase russianpeasantmultiplication scores  and peasantmultiplication only  To me this implies that it is nearly  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 useused these techniques use them empirically