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multiplication

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


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Though Sharpe wrote his article before the advent of AI, he stressed that his conclusion depends “only on the laws of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Nothing else is required.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Extended instruments depend on the combination or multiplication of already existing components.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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

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

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

Greg nodded toward Zu, who was sitting with her back to us, working through the pages of multiplication problems Liam had made for her.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

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

In World War II, an extraordinary calculating machine commissioned by the U.S. military, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could, each second, perform around 350 multiplications or 5,000 simple additions.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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