Ian White, G3SEK wrote:
"In your previous statement you said it "performs multiplication" which
is totally false."

It gives the right answers so it is not false.

Multiplication is the process of finding the product resulting from the
addition of a given number by a certain number of times as there are
units in another number.

It`s the product that counts, not the way you get there. An amplifier
with a certain gain is fine. A lever that trades force for distance is
fine. A digital machine, having no hardwired multiply and divide circuit
and only works with ones and zeros is fine.

The only important thing is you supply representative inputs to a device
and it gives you the correct product of the numbers as its outpot.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI