Stepping indoors from the searing subcontinental July heat, Kalavathi takes a seat in her office at the end of a long corridor decorated with scientific symbols and multiplication tables.
If the chart looks wrong, make sure that all addition and multiplication symbols are correct, as well as subtraction and division, please.
The theory states that there is a point where the operations of addition and multiplication are held neutral to each other for almost any two numbers a and b, once a or b is known, The relationship is such that for a+b = a*b, b = a/ a-1), so tha/ a-1 a large a, soy 10,000, b = almosthatat 10,000/9,999.
Videos to teach multiplication tables have billed her as the "mistress of maths".
(All those Xs were meant to symbolise the multiplication of wealth).
But even a three-plus-fold multiplication is not a negligible improvement.
But this week Merck, an American drug company, announced what should amount to a significant advance in the battle against cervical cancer.Cancer, the result of an uncontrolled multiplication of mutant cells in the body, claims some 7m lives around the world each year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), and about 10m new cases are diagnosed.
Often they are connected by simple operations such as addition or multiplication.
That is not surprising, since cancer (the uncontrolled multiplication of cells) is a problem unique to multicellular organisms.
Arturo Sarukhán, Mexico's ambassador in Washington, is pleased by the multiplication of actors in the relationship: "mayors, governors, universities, chambers of commerce, and not just the foreign ministry".
By representing numbers as logarithms (with the help of a slide-rule, or a set of printed tables) the time-consuming tasks of multiplication and division become simple matters of addition and subtraction respectively.
