Blog Post 7: Russian Peasant and Ancient Egyptian Multiplication Methods

Commonalities between Russian peasant and Ancient Egyptian multiplication

• Both use repeated doubling 
• Both have two columns 
• Both work step-by-step/row-by-row to simplify large calculations 
• Both exclude odd numbers from the left-hand column
• Both methods have a greater number in the right-hand column than in the left-hand column

I found the Russian peasant system a bit less intuitive whereas with the Ancient Egyptian system, by looking at the example I was able to find patterns and figure out how it worked relatively quickly.