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pdonis on March 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: What’s Wrong with “Multiplication Is Repeated Addi...

> I do understand the sentiment that in general multiplication is not repeated addition. But multiplication with a scalar is.

"Scalar" is too broad; irrational numbers are scalars, but multiplication by an irrational number is not repeated addition.

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