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multiplication table

Noun

Meaning

multiplication table (plural multiplication tables)

(arithmetic) A table showing the products of each of the integers from 1 to 10 (or, especially formerly, 12) with each of the integers from 1 to 10 (or 12).
Synonym: (informal) times table

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table. David Hilbert

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table. James A. Garfield

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. Wendell Phillips

Of living creatures, business men are nearest sane; their philosophy is as accurate as their multiplication table. E. W. Howe

The multiplication table will not occur in this book, not even the theorem,2 \cdot 2 = 4,but I would recommend, as an exercise, that you define2 = 1 + 1, 4 = (((1 + 1) + 1) + 1)and then prove the theorem. Edmund Landau

A convenient mnemonic for remembering the products of unit octonions is given by the diagram at the right, which represents the multiplication table of Cayley and Graves. Source: Internet

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