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The × symbol is listed in the Latin-1 Supplement character set and is U+00D7 × multiplication sign (HTML: × ×) in Unicode. It can be invoked in various operating systems as per the table below.
There is a similar character ⨯ at U+2A2F, but this is not always considered identical to U+00D7, as it is intended to explicitly denote the cross product of two vectors.
In computers, the * symbol is often used for multiplication since the ⨯ symbol does not exist on most keyboards.
| Mac OS X | in Character Palette, search for MULTIPLICATION SIGN |
| HTML, SGML, XML | × and × |
| Microsoft Windows |
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| Unix-like |
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| OpenOffice.org | times |
| TeX | \times |
| Unicode | U+00D7 |
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