I come from Norway, and here the formatting of maths are a little bit different than in the U.S. and the UK. If you want to factorize 25, you know that it is 5 times 5. How would you write this with LaTeX? In Norway we would write 5⋅5, and as far as I've seen, with LaTeX, you would write: $5\times 5$
( 5 x 5 )
Is there a difference, or is one of them wrong? Which one actually means times?
Best Answer
you can use
$5\cdot 5$
to create the way used in Norway. I don't know the mathematical difference as I'm not that firm in mathematics ;-) But this is a way to just create the output you want.