multiplication

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

“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

If you correctly answered 30 multiplication questions in 60 seconds, you received a calendar as a prize, and were then excused from any future exams.

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

Two final applications of the multiplication principle—one slightly depressing, the other somewhat cheering.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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