multiplication
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“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
No one can disagree with Mr. Warsh on the Fed’s mission creep and on the multiplication of inconsistent objectives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
Try jotting down three fractions separated by multiplication signs: earnings/sales x sales/assets x assets/equity.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
One key operation in a deep neural network involves the use of linear algebra to perform matrix multiplication, which transforms data as it is passed from layer to layer.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
“You are a regular scholar, Beulah. In two or three years you’ll be learning your multiplication tables.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
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 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
Vocabulary lists containing multiplication
Arithmetic
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The Number System
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