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Agreed -- "is a term of the sum" is such an inverted way to look at it.

Better I think would be to say "the result in column i and row j is the sum of product of elements in column i of the left cracovian and column j of the right cracovian".

And even by this definition the example given doesn't seem to track (and the strangeness of sometimes saying "+" and sometimes not, and having both "0" and "-0" in the example is bananas!):

   {  3  2 } {  1  -4 }  =   {  5   -2 }
   { -1  0 } { -2   3 }  =   {  0    2 }


   3 * 1 + -1 * -2 == 5 -- check
   3 * -4 + -1 * 3 == -15 -- what?
   2 * 1 + 0 * -2 == 2 (okay, but shouldn't this be in the lower left, column 1 dotted with column 2?)
   2 * -4 + 0 * 3 = -8 (now I'm really missing something)
mciOP

I took the liberty to replace my awkward wording with your "the result in column i and row j is the sum of product of elements in column i of the left cracovian and column j of the right cracovian". Hope you don't mind. Thanks!

mciOP

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I pasted my Polish text into Gemini to translate it into English. Gemini hallucinated the translation of this example. Now it should be OK.

Even in Polish, this comes out Greek to me.

I mean, it makes some sort of visual sense, but can't grasp the results from the matrices shown.

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