232
Which side are you on?
(feddit.dk)
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
\cdot
for matrix multiplication and the dot product,\times
for cross product and nothing (or*
, if I want to write it explicitly and have no convolution in the expression) for regular multiplication.But why
'*' is commonly used for multiplication in computer programming, so it's probably that. Also in your calculator app
** for power?
^
for power.**
is usually in a programming setting (but it‘s usually a method and not an operator there.)This is the way