Not really a question, just one phrase that left me scratching my head a bit: > The downside to radix-8 multiplication is that multiplying by a number from 0 t

Not really a question, just one phrase that left me scratching my head a bit: > The downside to radix-8 multiplication is that multiplying by a number from 0 to 7 is much more complicated than multiplying by 0 or 1, which is almost trivial. I think you can leave out the "almost" there - multiplying by 0 is 0 and multiplying by 1 is the number itself, as shown in the example, so I would definitely call it trivial.