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ancient Egyptians in 17th c. B.C. used a multiplication and division technique based on powers of 2 instead of multiplication tables. essentially a binary kind of logic using bit shifts

i stumbled upon this fact while reading a computer science article about bitwise operations

wtf were ancient Egyptians up to...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_multiplication