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NEITHER Dr. Hilbert nor the reviewer make any suggestion that the commutative law of addition is best proved as a deduction from the laws of multiplication. But the laws of multiplication are so often ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE maths students studying using an index or power, law of indices – multiplication and division, raising a power to a power, letters or numbers to the ...

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Mathematicians love a good puzzle. Even something as abstract as multiplying matrices (two-dimensional tables of numbers) can feel like a game when you try to find the most efficient way to do it.