If you are adding, you would use the plus sign:
235 + 987
The plus sign does adding and the minus sign does subtraction in Excel: =A10+B2 =A2-50 The * is used for multiplication. The / is used for division: =A2*A3 =A6/40
A plus sign, a minus sign and a star, which is used for multiplication.
Multiplication
There are many signs used in Excel. Three of them are the plus sign (+), the minus sign (-) and the multiplication sign (*).
In Excel, you use the asterisk, "*". As to the name, I would just call it the "multiplication sign".
Yes, two math terms can be separated by a multiplication sign. For example, in the expression (2 \times 3), the multiplication sign clearly indicates that the two terms, 2 and 3, are to be multiplied. This notation is commonly used in arithmetic and algebra to denote the operation of multiplication.
The symbol used to indicate multiplication is the asterisk (*), commonly used in programming and computing. In mathematics, the multiplication sign is often represented by a cross (×) or a dot (·). Each of these symbols serves the same purpose in indicating that two numbers should be multiplied together.
The most common symbol for multiplication is the asterisk (*), often used in programming and mathematical software. Another widely recognized symbol is the multiplication sign (×), used in traditional arithmetic. Additionally, in algebra, parentheses or juxtaposition (placing variables or numbers next to each other) can also indicate multiplication.
Multiplication.
Purely a matter of convenience. 'x' is an acceptable character that means "multiplied by", and it appears on the keyboard, whereas the regular multiplication sign doesn't. Well . . . to be perfectly honest, we don't even know what a "regular multiplication sign" is. ======================================== Another contributor agreed: I was just going to ask that, what is a regular multiplication sign? For 50 years I have been using x I think he means when he says regular multiplication sign he means the dot that is used for algebra because x is a variable. P.S. I just learned about scientific notation and asked my teacher the same question. She didn't know.
As used in the fictional novel The Sign of the Beaver (1983), it means dog.
Robert Recorde, who designed the equals sign, introduced plus and minus in 1557. Brahmagupta was an Indian mathematician who invented the multiplication sign around the 19th century. Johann Rahn first used the division sign in his book Teutshe algebra in 1659.