Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> writes:

> I've also seen the dot notation to describe operations
> in a group, but I've rarely seen the actual term multiplication.

I'm referring to the notation, which somehow determines how how one
thinks about the operation.

> Note however that here you also have the "scalar multiplication", so
> if you use this term, addition would be the appropriate for the
> group operation.

Sure. If one chooses to use multiplicative notation for the group
operation, this operation would be called an exponentiation, not a
multiplication.

Regards,
/nisse

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