In its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded there's a more than 95 percent probability that human activities over the past 50 years have warmed our planet.
Scalar multiplication of two vectors (to give the so-called dot product) is commutative (i.e., aÂ·b = bÂ·a), but vector multiplication (to give the cross product) is not (i.e., a Ã b = âb Ã a). The commutative law does not necessarily hold for multiplication of conditionally convergent series.
asÂ·soÂ·ciÂ·aÂ·tive property. The property of addition and multiplication which states that a difference in the grouping of numbers being added or multiplied will not change the result, as long as the order of the numbers stays the same. For example, 3 + (4 + 5) is equal to (3 + 4) + 5. See also commutative property, distributive property. 1  Facebook.