multiplication sign

If a multiplication sign is used — it depends.

Joshua Zucker then proposed a number of follow-on questions, including: “What if player 2 must use exactly one multiplication sign, but may use one set of parentheses?”

Putting the multiplication sign inside the parens accomplishes nothing, as once the multiplication is done, it is all straight addition from there, regardless of the order.

Page 222—multiplication sign changed to plus—"... but the sum of the digits 1 + 8 = 9."

It will have been noticed that a multiplication sign is placed in front of the names of "hybrid genera," but after the generic name in the case of hybrids within a single genus; further details on this point are given later.