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Letter: For the record – 27 April 2019

Published 24 April 2019

• The proof of the efficiency of a new method of multiplication works only for numbers with more than 10 to the power of 200 trillion trillion trillion digits (6 April, p 12).

Issue no. 3227 published 27 April 2019

New Scientist issue 3227 cover

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