Multiplication Calculator

Product and multiplication refer to the same thing: the result from multiplying numbers (or other objects, for that matter). Fortunately, the process is very simple: it boils down to adding the value a suitable number of times. For instance, times means that we add five times, i.e.:

Similarly, times translates to adding twenty times:

However, note that we can always invert the process of finding the product with multiplication. In other words, the times can also mean adding twenty-four times:

and we can get times by adding twelve times:

It's always our choice how to multiply the numbers since the result is the same either way. In mathematical terms, this means that the product or multiplication is a commutative operation. Note that the same is true for addition. On the other hand, it does not hold for, say, subtraction.

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Also, our multiply calculator only deals with numbers, but mathematicians figured out how to multiply other objects. Below, we list a couple of other multiplication calculators from .

• Matrix multiplication calculator; and
• Multiplying fractions calculator.

However, it's not always that we deal with integers like , , or . We've learned how to multiply those and what, say, times is, but how do we find the product of decimals? For example, what is times ? Is our multiplication calculator also a multiplying decimals calculator?

Oh, you bet!

In essence, decimals are fractions. Therefore, one way of multiplying decimals is to convert them to regular fractions and then use the basic rule of numerator times numerator over denominator times denominator. For example,

Of course, we could have also found easier equivalent fractions to the two given before multiplying. In this case, we could have said that and , so

Both answers are correct; it's always your choice how to multiply decimals. However, besides the two mentioned, there is another.

When multiplying decimals, say, and , we can begin by forgetting the dots. That means that to find , we start by finding , which is . Then we count how many digits to the right of the dots we had in total in the numbers we started with (in this case, it's three: one in and two in ). We then write the dot that many digits from the right in what we obtained. For us, this translates to putting the dot to the left of , which gives (we write if we have no number in front of the dot).

All in all, we've seen how to multiply decimals in three ways. To be perfectly honest, the first two were pretty much the same thing; it's just that the intermediate steps were in a different order. Nevertheless, this concludes the part about how to multiply without a calculator. Now let's describe in detail how to do it with one, and to be precise, with multiplication calculator.

Let's find times with the multiply calculator. At the top of our tool, we see the formula:

This means that to calculate , we need to input:

And:

The moment we give the second number, the multiplication calculator spits out the answer in the Result field.

However, say that you'd like to multiply the result further by (remember that our tool also works as a multiplying decimals calculator).

We could just clear out the fields and write the answer from above into one of the factors, i.e., input and . Alternatively, we can simply select many numbers under Multiply..., which lets us find the product of multiplication for more numbers. If we do so, a Number of factors field will appear, where we can choose how many numbers we want to multiply (up to a maximum of 10). If we select factors, we'll get the option to input , , . It's then enough to input:

And read off the answer from underneath:

Well, this multiply calculator sure saves a lot of time. Can you imagine writing two thousand twenty times the number like we did in the first section? We, for one, don't.