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It remained, therefore, to multiply this by 78, which he effected by multiplying 2,280, or the product of the multiplicand, multiplied by 5, by 15, as 5 times 15 is 75.

The Multiplier is the number denoting how many times the multiplicand is to be taken.

Let the task be to multiply a multiplicand of four figures by a multiplier of three.

Then the product has meaning: it is a concrete quantity of the same denomination as the multiplicand.

When it is necessary to write the multiplicand before the multiplier, the symbol � will be used, so that b � a will mean the same as a � b.