For old-school software developers 4\*8 is easy because both numbers are powers ...

Const-me 18 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why 4x8 and 6x8 are, surprisingly, some of the har...

For old-school software developers 4*8 is easy because both numbers are powers of 2. I compute expressions like that as 2 ^ ( log2(4) + log2(8) ) = 2^(2+3) = 2^5