multiplication table

noun

Arithmetic. a tabular listing of the products of any two numbers of a set, usually of the integers 1 through 10 or 1 through 12.

First recorded in 1665–75

How many of the most important affairs of life can be demonstrated by means of the multiplication table?

The majority of you no doubt know what the multiplication-table is, and I am sure you have thought it a pretty disagreeable thing.

The captain is an ambitious ass, he couldn't think his way through a multiplication table.

He did not use the book, and did not need to; he knew his Shakespeare as well as Euclid ever knew his multiplication table.

Whether the habit is some fundamental moral habit or the multiplication table, be consistent, do not vacillate.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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