On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Kevin Tarr wrote: > * He is a mechanic, which I was for ten years. To move into a higher pay > range, to just receive a raise for the past year, he had to take a test > "Factory Mathematics". One of the questions was "What is the name of the > first result of a large multiplication problem?" > > like: > 76 > x67 > ------ > 532 <---- What is this first result called? > 4560 > ------ > 5092
Damn, I haven't the faintest idea. It sounds like something the test-maker borrowed from an elementary math book, the part of the elementary math book that nobody but writers of elementary math books know about or care about. Marvin Long Austin, Texas
