Which side are you on?

Get rotated, idiot.
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  I didn't actually downvoted your comment but apprently someone did and now I look like an asshole 😢.

\cdot all the way (except e.g. cross-product for vectors, I'm not an anarchist)
- Same same, cdot is nice and clear

As someone that grades undergraduates, I'm happy that they not use the letter "x" to imply multiplication.
- I don’t understand why we teach that to children, just to turn around and tell them not to do it a few years later.
  
  I suppose kids aren't great at centering a dot. But they could draw a six pointed * as easily as an x, it's one more line.

I need 'em both. Not everything I multiply is a number.
- dot product vs cross product

(1)(3)(5)
Fight me. Also, one of these is a function

I use asterisk.
- In LaTeX? You really are a rebel.

times is for cartesian product, cdot if i feel like it

\cdot master race. \times users should just use Microsoft Word (unless it's for a Cartesian product or for cross product, of course)

\cdot for matrix multiplication and the dot product, \times for cross product and nothing (or *, if I want to write it explicitly and have no convolution in the expression) for regular multiplication.
- or *, if I want to write it explicitly and have no convolution in the expression
  But why
  
  '*' is commonly used for multiplication in computer programming, so it's probably that. Also in your calculator app
- ** for power?
  
  ^ for power. ** is usually in a programming setting (but it‘s usually a method and not an operator there.)
- This is the way

\cdot for vectors and in some cases, scalar variables, e.g., x \cdot y
\times for numbers, e.g., 2 \times 8
nothing for combination and scalars, e.g., 2x or xy

I use \times and redefine it as \cdot

How about nothing at all

People using the cross for scalar multiplication are insane

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cdots is within matrices and times is used for a m \times n matrix

Depends on whether I want a scalar or vector, sine or cosine

Aye, why not an asterisk / * ?
It's also good for multiplying, innit?

Cries in Linear Algebra

cdot for vector dot products, times for multiplying plain numbers, whatever i feel like for anything else
edit: dropped the dot in vector dot product, my bad
- Vector dot products go with dot, cross with times.
  
  yeah i accidentally left that out

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