multiplication
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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
Many AI systems rely heavily on matrix multiplication, a mathematical operation used in tasks like image recognition and language processing.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 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
By then I could spell lots of words and already knew my multiplication tables.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
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