0 a list that shows the results of multiplying one number by a set of other numbers, usually from one to twelve, used especially by children at school --
A multiplication table with ten rows and ten columns lists the results for each pair of digits.
This was accomplished by creating a "mechanical representation" of the multiplication table which could be read and used by the machine.
Each digit is determined by a division table, which is the inverse of part of the multiplication table; there is no guessing.
Dividing 950 by 4 in a single step would require knowing the multiplication table up to 238 4.
Any callous fool with a cane in his or her hand can terrorise a child into learning the alphabet and the multiplication table; and that process does all the mischief.
In those days he believed in opposition to women's enfranchisement just as he believed in the multiplication table.
The difference is as great as that between the multiplication table and the electronic brain.
It might be from some points of view as important an educational period as that devoted to the multiplication table.
