Binary multiplication

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  1. Croatoan

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    Can sb give me a tip for recursive multiplication of two binary numbers (their lenght is 2^n)! I need only recursive to implement it in c++ code,
     
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    What's recursive multiplication? Could you outline the algorithm, i.e. how would you do it on paper?
     
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    x=xl * 2^(n/2)+xr (n=2^k, k e 1,2,3)
    y=yl * 2^(n/2)+yr

    x*y=xl * 2^(n/2) * yl * 2^(n/2) + xl * 2^(n/2) * yr +
    xr*yl * 2^(n/2) + xr*yr

    how to implement that in c++
     
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    Where are you stuck?
    2^(n/2) appears to be a constant (let's say you put that in c), so the first equation
    x=xl*c+xr
    translates into C++ as
    x=xl*c+xr;

    You should be able to take it from there.
     

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