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\cdot all the way (except e.g. cross-product for vectors, I’m not an anarchist)
Same same, cdot is nice and clear
As someone that grades undergraduates, I’m happy that they not use the letter “x” to imply multiplication.
I don’t understand why we teach that to children, just to turn around and tell them not to do it a few years later.
I suppose kids aren’t great at centering a dot. But they could draw a six pointed * as easily as an x, it’s one more line.
I need 'em both. Not everything I multiply is a number.
\cdotmaster race.\timesusers should just use Microsoft Word (unless it’s for a Cartesian product or for cross product, of course)\cdotfor matrix multiplication and the dot product,\timesfor cross product and nothing (or*, if I want to write it explicitly and have no convolution in the expression) for regular multiplication.** for power?
^for power.**is usually in a programming setting (but it‘s usually a method and not an operator there.)
or *, if I want to write it explicitly and have no convolution in the expression
But why
This is the way
times is for cartesian product, cdot if i feel like it
I use
\timesand redefine it as\cdot(
People using the cross for scalar multiplication are insane
Depends on whether I want a scalar or vector, sine or cosine
How about nothing at all
Cries in Linear Algebra
