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multiplication

[muhl-tuh-pli-key-shuhn] / ˌmʌl tə plɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Many AI systems rely heavily on matrix multiplication, a mathematical operation used in tasks like image recognition and language processing.

From Science Daily Apr. 7, 2026

“To have a really good organization, everyone has to be united in what they want, and each person has to contribute. It’s kind of like multiplication rather than addition.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2026

If you correctly answered 30 multiplication questions in 60 seconds, you received a calendar as a prize, and were then excused from any future exams.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

Try jotting down three fractions separated by multiplication signs: earnings/sales x sales/assets x assets/equity.

From Barron's Dec. 26, 2025

But maybe multiplication is as much a puzzle to Madge as slide positions are to me.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

Today they perform hundreds of septillions of matrix multiplications to power leading large language models.

From MarketWatch May 23, 2026

If future hardware is designed specifically for one-bit models, it will eliminate the need for complex mathematical multiplications altogether, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

Their functions included computing higher-order multiplications, exponents and logarithms, among other mathematical operations.

From New York Times Feb. 8, 2024

It “could do 1,780 additions or subtractions per second, 200 multiplications per second and 56 divisions per second.”

From Seattle Times Apr. 15, 2022

Fraction multiplications are hard but nothing I can’t handle.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan




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