When you add, the end result is a sum. The process of addition can also be called summation. If this is the case, why doesn’t anyone call the process of multiplication production? It would also open up to some good jokes…FACTORies do PRODUCTION
When you add, the end result is a sum. The process of addition can also be called summation. If this is the case, why doesn’t anyone call the process of multiplication production? It would also open up to some good jokes…FACTORies do PRODUCTION
Product not production
OP literally emphasised the distinction between process and result in their post, specifically so that this exact confusion would not occur, and yet still everyone is talking about the word for the result instead of the process.