what is the multiplication sign on the computer
a rotationally symmetric saltire the symbol × *
title: Multiplication sign text: explicitly, such as in " for "; this usage is also seen in English-language texts. In some languages (especially Bulgarian and French ) the use of full stop as a multiplication symbol, such as , is common. Historically, computer language syntax was restricted to the ASCII character set; in the absence of the × character, became the "de facto" standard notation of the multiplication operator in computing. This selection is still reflected in the standard numeric keypad, where the arithmetic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are represented by the , , , and keys, respectively. The × symbol title: Multiplication sign text: is listed in the Latin-1 Supplement character set and is in Unicode. It can be invoked in various operating systems as per the table below. A monadic × symbol is used by the APL programming language to denote the sign function. There is a similar character ⨯ at U+2A2F, but this is not always considered identical to U+00D7, as U+2A2F is intended to "explicitly" denote the cross product of two vectors. Other variants are encoded: Multiplication sign The multiplication sign, also known as the times sign or the dimension sign, is the symbol ×. While similar to the lowercase letter title: Multiplication text: the terms; that is, in infix notation. For example, The sign is encoded in Unicode at . There are other mathematical notations for multiplication: In computer programming, the asterisk (as in codice_1) is still the most common notation. This is due to the fact that most computers historically were limited to small character sets (such as ASCII and EBCDIC) that lacked a multiplication sign (such as codice_2 or codice_3), while the asterisk appeared on every keyboard. This usage originated in the FORTRAN programming language. The numbers to be multiplied are generally called the "factors". The number to be multiplied is title: Multiplication sign text: Multiplication sign The multiplication sign, also known as the times sign or the dimension sign, is the symbol ×. While similar to the lowercase letter x, the form is properly a rotationally symmetric saltire. In mathematics, the symbol × has a number of uses, including In biology, the multiplication sign is used in a botanical hybrid name, for instance "Ceanothus papillosus" × "impressus" (a hybrid between "C. papillosus" and "C. impressus") or "Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora" (a hybrid between two other species of "Crocosmia"). However, the communication of these hybrid names with a standard non-multiplication "x" is common when the actual title: Multiplication text: Multiplication Multiplication (often denoted by the cross symbol "×", by a point "⋅", by juxtaposition, or, on computers, by an asterisk "∗") is one of the four elementary mathematical operations of arithmetic; with the others being addition, subtraction and division. The multiplication of whole numbers may be thought as a repeated addition; that is, the multiplication of two numbers is equivalent to adding as many copies of one of them, the "multiplicand", as the value of the other one, the "multiplier". The multiplier can be written first and multiplicand second (though the custom can vary by culture); both can be