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× (multiplication sign) 1. In elementary arithmetic, denotes multiplication, and is read as times; for example, 3 × 2. 2. In geometry and linear algebra, denotes the cross product. 3. In set theory and category theory, denotes the Cartesian product and the direct product. See also × in § Set theory. · 1.
The code for the math example reads: <math display= "inline" > \sum_{i=0}^\infty 2^{-i} </math> The quotation marks around inline are optional and display=inline is also valid. [2] Technically, the command \textstyle will be added to the user input before the TeX command is passed to the renderer. The result will be displayed without further ...
While the first interpretation may be expected by some users due to the nature of implied multiplication, [38] the latter is more in line with the rule that multiplication and division are of equal precedence. [3] When the user is unsure how a calculator will interpret an expression, parentheses can be used to remove the ambiguity. [3]
Unfortunately, this leads to ambiguity. The number 1 230 400 is usually read to have five significant figures: 1, 2, 3, 0, and 4, the final two zeroes serving only as placeholders and adding no precision. The same number, however, would be used if the last two digits were also measured precisely and found to equal 0 – seven significant figures.
When playing an audio file on a portable media player, such as an iPod, the screen display may show the time remaining as a negative number, which increases up to zero time remaining at the same rate as the time already played increases from zero. Television game shows: Participants on QI often finish with a negative points score.
In mathematics, an empty product, or nullary product or vacuous product, is the result of multiplying no factors.It is by convention equal to the multiplicative identity (assuming there is an identity for the multiplication operation in question), just as the empty sum—the result of adding no numbers—is by convention zero, or the additive identity.
From January 2008 to March 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -53.5 percent return on your investment, compared to a -4.4 percent return from the S&P 500.
Multiplication by a positive number preserves the order: For a > 0, if b > c, then ab > ac. Multiplication by a negative number reverses the order: For a < 0, if b > c, then ab < ac. The complex numbers do not have an ordering that is compatible with both addition and multiplication. [30]