multiplication
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Cembalest was also alarmed by the rapidly mounting margin debt accumulated by retail traders that was turbocharging the rally, and the market risks from the multiplication of leveraged ETFs on the sector.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Nominally about multiplication, the test was actually about how well you functioned under pressure.
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
Operating at an impressive 12.5 GHz, OFE2 achieves a single matrix-vector multiplication in just 250.5 picoseconds -- the fastest known result for this type of optical computation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2025
During those years when I was memorizing the questions and answers of The Baltimore Catechism, I was also impressing on my memory the spelling of hundreds of words, grammar rules, division and multiplication tables.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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
Despite repeated multiplications of the official minimum wage earned by millions of Venezuelans, it still amounts to about $2 — not even enough to buy a kilogram of chicken.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
In 1946, the world’s first computer, which weighed over 25 tons, could perform 385 multiplications per second.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
A couple of brief multiplications, a simple division, and, bingo, you know your gravitational position wherever you go.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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