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I was repeatedly asked how the method of fast multiplication of multiplace numbers was found.
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The speaker says that people kept asking how the method for quickly multiplying numbers with many places was discovered. The sentence introduces an explanation of the method’s origin, but does not yet give that explanation.
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- Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 211 (1995), “The Complexity of Computations”
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