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multiplication

[muhl-tuh-pli-kay-shuhn] / ˌmʌl tə plɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Cembalest was also alarmed by the rapidly mounting margin debt accumulated by retail traders that was turbocharging the rally, and the market risks from the multiplication of leveraged ETFs on the sector.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 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

"Our findings suggest that DMTF1 can contribute to neural stem cell multiplication in neurological aging," Dr. Liang said.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 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

Even those of us whose mouths moved when we were reading our own names knew the multiplication table up through times twelve.

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

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

In World War II, an extraordinary calculating machine commissioned by the U.S. military, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could, each second, perform around 350 multiplications or 5,000 simple additions.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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