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multiplication

[muhl-tuh-pli-key-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

"Over 92 percent of the computing in AI systems like ChatGPT is nothing but matrix multiplication," Yang said.

From Science Daily Apr. 7, 2026

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

From Barron's Dec. 26, 2025

It reminded me of the way I was taught multiplication tables as a child, repeating after the master, sitting cross-legged, without shoes or pencils, on the floor of my one-room Tollygunge school.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

You multiplied the two terms of the first binomial by the two terms of the second binomial—four multiplications.

From Textbooks Apr. 22, 2020

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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