multiplication
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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
By 3, she was writing with upper elementary school precision, had conquered multiplication tables and understood division, her father said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
I could do the multiplication table through ten and read and write simple sentences by the age of four as a result of all those long nights working with her.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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
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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