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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For those that struggled like me…

Going from a-z, write out the last three multiplicands.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

X-X

Ah

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For those of you who still struggled like me, a multiplicand in this case refers to one of the (n-x) terms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

a multiplicand in this case refers to one of the (n-x) terms

Well, that's what was apparently meant, but in fact the correct terminology here is factors. There's only multiplicands (and multipliers) with an explicit multiplication sign. axb - multiplicand a and multiplier b, ab - Term with factors a and b, and a is the coefficient of this Term.