First association - wood (mighty big as well)
Second association - 6 wheeled vehicle, 4 wheels driven (possibly because of the recent Top Gear with the Mercedes 6x6).
Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
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Re: Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
#22There are two options for "six, four copies of".
I see this as an area with six units along one side and four units along the next side.
I'd read "6 x 4" as "multiply 6 by 4" which I'd see as "6 + 6 + 6 + 6" and the same as six x four.
I am not sure what you mean by "lots" or "copies".
Re: Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
#23It can mean any of the things on your poll, and many not on your poll, except for "Six lots of four", that one doesn't make sense to me.
But that term has MANY meanings - without the context (arithmetic? wood? cars? IPv6? matrix?) it's impossible to say.
Re: Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
#24First association - wood (mighty big as well) Second association - 6 wheeled vehicle, 4 wheels driven (possibly because of the recent Top Gear with the Mercedes 6x6).
Wood for me too, I guess all those summer jobs at construction left something behind.
Re: Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
#256 inches wide by 4 inches tall.
Multiplication would be 6 * 4 or 6 × 4, not 6 x 4.
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#26Maybe this is the designer in me speaking, but I immediately thought of width x height.
Re: Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
#27Six sets of four reps each. But that's a really weird routine. I recommend 3-4 sets of 8-12 reps for most people.
Re: Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
#28As others have mentioned, a grid of 6 columns by 4 rows, like the resolution of a display.
Re: Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
#29The context has to be very particular for me not to consider this to be exactly 24 (natural number, not real number) without intermediate representation. I assume we're working over the ring of integers here. In that case, 6x4 is only ever not instantly 24 when it's part of an expression of similar terms (say, 6x1 + 6x2 + 6x3 + 6x4) in which a pattern is being expressed. If you're not working over the usual ring, tho…
For me the multiplication is not all that obvious because I'm used to reading and writing "6*4" for multiplications within an ASCII context. 6x4 looks like a noun to me, a type of real-world object or maybe an area.
Re: Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
#30How about: "The multiplicative ring operation of ℤ on the elements (((((1+1)+1)+1)+1)+1) and (((1+1)+1)+1)."
As a mathematician with a slight focus on algebra when I see such terms the questions that come to my mind are rather: Which ring am I working on, has it finite characteristics, is one of these numbers a ring element and the other an Element of ℤ [1]? It is always funny to see how your focus changes your perception :)
[1] For example 4 could be an element of the finite field with 5 elements GF(5). Then I would interpret 6x4 as 4+4+4+4+4+4, because 6 is not an element of GF(5) and I thus cannot plug it into the multiplication operation of GF(5).