Problem 553. How to multiply?

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 3 Apr 2012

it seems there's an erroneous test case. the second test case has this line in it: Assert(isequal(P,PBM(B,M))), but there's no P or PBM

AMITAVA BISWAS on 3 Apr 2012

Fixed, thanks for letting me know.

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Christopher on 4 Apr 2012

I couldn't think of a clever way, so I just mimicked how I do multiplication with paper and pencil. Duh.

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