The Result
The result is obtained by adding the numbers from the second column for which the corresponding power of two makes up part of the decomposition of the first multiplicand.
The main advantage of this technique is that it makes use of only addition, subtraction, and multiplication by two.
Read more about this topic: Ancient Egyptian Multiplication
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