I see 6x4 either as the dimensions of a surface, or as some kinds of informal coordinate (like "the 4th episode of the 6th season of a tv show).
Poll: Asking for a friend – what do you understand by "6x4"
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#32The ordinary language expression "six times four" [and a wasted opportunity to use Polish notation]. After that "24" and I don't mean some picture of countable things but just the abstraction called "24".
Even after reading the poll answers none of the this-or-that options even prompt an image of a grouping. What makes algebraic notation useful is that it abstracts away the need to model the calculation further in most cases. There's no need to ponder "x lots of y or y lots of x". That's good because "lots" and "of" are more muddied. concepts than "times". My fourth grade teacher could explain "times" by giving examples of timesing. Examples of lotsing and ofing are harder to come by.
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#33Six sets of four reps each. But that's a really weird routine. I recommend 3-4 sets of 8-12 reps for most people.
I have always found 5 sets of 8 to be best :)
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#34A plank of wood? i.e. six by four
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#35I'll throw in another vote for the "six-by-four area" group, this time from communicating the sizes of lego pieces to my brother while we were building things. I also see a malformed attempt at typing in a hexademical number.
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#36When I saw "6x4", my immediate thought was a "six by four" matrix. So, by convention, this means 6 rows and 4 columns, corresponding to e.g. 6 observations of 4 variables each (from a statistician's perspective). The closest answer I could find here was "six lots of four."
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#37An unusual use of the 24x7; 6 hours for 4 days?
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#38It's six wide and four tall.
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#39I'll throw in another vote for the "six-by-four area" group, this time from communicating the sizes of lego pieces to my brother while we were building things. I also see a malformed attempt at typing in a hexademical number.
Those were quite literally the first two things to come into my mind after "6 times 4", right down to Lego's with my brother.
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#40When I saw "6x4", my immediate thought was a "six by four" matrix. So, by convention, this means 6 rows and 4 columns, corresponding to e.g. 6 observations of 4 variables each (from a statistician's perspective). The closest answer I could find here was "six lots of four."
Definitely a matrix... * is for multiplication ;)