multiplication
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Multiplication is a way of combining groups of equal size—for example, four bags with three marbles each gives twelve marbles total. It's also useful as a tool for scaling quantities up or down, such as doubling or tripling an amount.
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- Notation
- Definitions
- Product of two natural numbers
- Product of two integers
- Product of two fractions
- Product of two real numbers
- Product of two complex numbers
- Product of two quaternions
- Computation
- Historical algorithms
- Egyptians
- Babylonians
- Chinese
- Modern methods
- Grid method
- Computer algorithms
- Products of measurements
- Properties of capital pi notation
- Infinite products
- Exponentiation
- Properties
- Axioms
- Multiplication with set theory
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Four bags with three marbles per bag gives twelve marbles (4 × 3 = 12). thumb|Multiplication can also be thought of as Scale factor|scaling. Here, 2 is being multiplied by 3 using scaling, giving 6 as a result.
Multiplication is one of the four elementary mathematical operations of arithmetic, with the other ones being addition, subtraction, and division. The result of a multiplication operation is called a product. Multiplication is often denoted by the cross symbol, , by the mid-line dot operator, , by juxtaposition, or, in programming languages, by an asterisk, .