Multiplication Poll: * or · or something else?

[walter b]

(04-11-2014 01:02 AM)orcinus Wrote:  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.
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If it mattered over the course of 130 years of math, there's a good chance it's there for a reason.

I bet un buon fiasco di vino Italiano that 130 years of international math can't outweigh 220 years of national US-American customs.

d:-/