Multiplication Poll: * or · or something else?

[orcinus]

There's a reason × has been traditionally used as notation for cross product and · has been used for the dot product. Hell, the operations are even (colloquially) called after the symbols.

Let's not needlessly reinvent the wheel by saying "it doesn't matter".
If it mattered over the course of 130 years of math, there's a good chance it's there for a reason.