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Comment by yakubin

> You can definitely see multiplication as repeated addition.

Only for rational numbers. Doesn't work for real and complex numbers.

> It's even a useful thing to do, how else would you define multiplication?

Axiomatically, not algorithmically.

parent yakubin 5 years ago

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