# What Are Multiplication and Addition?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-multiplication-and-addition/371338>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-multiplication-and-addition/371338 "2006-09-04T00:09:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-multiplication-and-addition/371338/21 "2006-09-06T16:57:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Mathochist]  
Are you kidding? What with the hours in the ivory tower how can you not go to parties, if only to keep from getting bored?

Oh wait, you’re working a _real_ job? /me points and snickers  
[/QUOTE]  
Laugh all you want. I gave up working for being a student again, which means being taught by non-party-animals from the math department. 😉

Hopefully, I won’t get contaminated, or the high school students I intend to teach math in the future will look at me much as I looked at MY high school math teachers. And to think they were relatively normal as math people go… 😛

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