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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject: Re: Multiplication [was Re: Late-binding of function defaults]
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Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>:

> But by this time, we had already learned in secondary school that you can
> use any of the following to write multiplication:
>
> x × y

Not where I lived. (Those x's would have been a nightmare for the
teacher who had to mark people's test answers.)

> x ⋅ y

Yes. After all, it would never get mixed up with the decimal comma.

> x y

Not to multiply numbers with each other.

> just as you can write division as:
>
> x / y

Not where I lived.

> x ÷ y

Not that one, either.

               x
We only had:  ---
               y


Marko