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
We started with the easiest multiplication you can do, other than one times anything: the ten-times tables.
From Literature
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No one can disagree with Mr. Warsh on the Fed’s mission creep and on the multiplication of inconsistent objectives.
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.
Toby had put parentheses after exponents when explaining PEMDAS, even though the order was literally parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.
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