“Summation” already means something else, and funnily enough words can have different meanings in different contexts without causing any confusion.
Comment on “Production” to describe multiplication?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
because “production” already means something else and there already is the very good word “multiplication” for it; “summation” doesn’t mean anything else common
Morlark@feddit.uk 6 days ago
scheep@lemmy.world 1 week ago
that makes sense. But then you have words like “differentiate” (find the difference between vs multiplying the coefficients by the indexes and reducing the indexes by one) but I guess it’s because the math “differentiate” isn’t really used by people who don’t so math (whereas something like addition or multiplication is used in everyday tasks)
jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
“summation” is also related to summary. All these words are related to reducing a collection of things to a single thing. A sum reduces a collection of numbers to its total. A summary reduces a collection of thoughts to its essence. A summation is effectively a synonym for a summary.
The word multiplication describes the operation applied to each pair of numbers. The word production would refer to the act of multiplying an arbitrary collection of numbers. Just as it would be for addition and summation.
It would fit the pattern.