Re: what is a summand

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:58:49 -0600, David C Ullrich wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:46:55 -0800, The World Wide Wade
><waderameyxiii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>In article
>><1138670485.927522.185860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> "David Ames" <worldrecord@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> What I learned was:
>>> augend + addend = sum
>>> minuend - subtrahend = difference
>>> multiplicand x multiplier = product
>>
>>No, it's multiplier x multiplicand = product.

> You're probably right. I just stated it was the other
> way around, based on the fact that in "3 x 2" we're
> taking 3 times 2, ie multiplying 3 by 2. Otoh I
> suppose that "3 times 2" could equally well mean
> that 2 is being multiplied by 3.

I'm not sure there is a good answer. I agree that "3 times 2" makes me
think of writing down three 2's and then adding them, suggesting that 3
is the multiplier.

On the other hand, if you write it grade-school style as

3
x 2
----

then I was taught that the number next to the multiplication symbol is
the multiplier, and the number on top is the multiplicand.

--
Dave Seaman
U.S. Court of Appeals to review three issues
concerning case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
<http://www.mumia2000.org/>
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