Morlark

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Production” to describe multiplication?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Everywhere uses the same terms, you just didn’t understand the question.

  The result of addition is the sum. The sum is calculated by summation of inputs.

  The result of multiplication is the product. The product is calculated by __________ of inputs.

  OP’s question is: why can’t the blank be “production”, by analogy with “summation”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Production” to describe multiplication?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Summation” already means something else, and funnily enough words can have different meanings in different contexts without causing any confusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Production” to describe multiplication?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OP literally emphasised the distinction between process and result in their post, specifically so that this exact confusion would not occur, and yet still everyone is talking about the word for the result instead of the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiltshire PCC supports calls to reclassify cannabis as Class A - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  PCCs were a mistake. Never should we have let the ruling class impose a politicised police force upon us. It was inevitable that it would lead to ignorant nonsense like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was certainly a ‘no-brain’ somewhere in her thought process, I’ll grant her that.