Is Multiplication Really Just Repeated Addition?

[coolul007]

The dole is always a counterexample to staying in school...

 

[Studiot]

The dole is always a counterexample to staying in school...

That's pretty disrespectful of the young.

The average youth unemployment rate (through no fault of their own) currently stands at 25% and reaches over 50% in some areas.

Those who do get jobs do so, not on their academic record but by knowing the rich and powerful, if recent news articles are to be believed.

go well

 

[dalcde]

I think that multiplication is the unique operation which satisfies the distributive property, and, when applied to integers, is equivalent to repeated addition.

 

[agentredlum]

try to multiply e by pi. e from exponential 1 and pi = 3.14...you'd see it's not a repeated addition at all.

I think it is...add e to itself 3 times, then add some more 'stuff'