Example
Here, in actual figures, is how 238 is multiplied by 13. The lines are multiplied by two, from one to the next. A check mark is placed by the powers of two in the decomposition of 13.
| ✓ | 1 | 238 | |||||
| 2 | 476 | ||||||
| ✓ | 4 | 952 | |||||
| ✓ | 8 | 1904 | |||||
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