Poll: Multiplication sign in 2D mode? In non-2D/text editor?
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Multiplication Poll: * or · or something else?
04-11-2014, 12:43 AM
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RE: Multiplication Poll: * or · or something else?
(03-13-2014 09:31 PM)htom trites Wrote:  There's no confusion in using the multiply symbol. The type of multiply (scalar or vector) is determined by the multiplicands; vector x vector is a cross product, scalar x scalar is a scalar product. vector x scalar, and scalar x vector, are errors.

Which is fine, but not really the issue. The problem is not whether the x means scalar or cross product when the operands are known. The real issue is when two variables appear on the display as a x b -- most people will assume that a and b are vectors, which would be misleading if the intended operation was scalar multiplication.

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