Talk:Strassen algorithm

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While a lot of older textbooks will say that "additions don't matter, but multiplications do". That is usually not relevant anymore. Multiplying numbers is slower if you are working with multi-word representations of numbers (sometimes called 'big numbers'), but if you just multiplying "float"s or "double"s then multiplications and additions take the same amount of time on most processors (as far as i know) today. I'm going to change the article to say, "if we only consider multiplications" without the statement bout multiplications being inherently slower.... :)

Yes, it depends on the sizes of the numbers being multiplied. Perhaps a clarification of this point should be added to the article? I'm not familiar with the size of the matrix components used in most matrix algorithms so I will defer this point to the experts. - Gauge 03:19, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

This is mathematical thing, not a technical article. It states theoretical bounds.--213.141.159.52 14:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I am unfamiliar with the use of blackboard bold to denote an arbitrary field, as I understand it to mean one of the canonical sets of numbers (e.g., the complex numbers, the integers, etc.). Shouldn't the article use K or K instead of ? Pmdboi 18:05, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Some texts use or K to emphasize the point that K is a field but I think most text use a simple K instead. I changed the article accordingly. And I changed K into the more common F. MathMartin 19:09, 19 February 2006 (UTC)