Related paradigm:

AlgorithmDivide_and_ConquerInteger_Multiplication


Problem: Multiply two n-digit integers.

In primary school the multiplication of two numbers can be solving using long multiplication approach:

  1 2 4
x   2 6
---------
2 4 8 0        // the height in addition has n levels
+ 7 4 4
---------
3 2 2 4

The time complexity for this approach is .