Does $AB$ means $A\times B$?

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What will $AB$ be when $A=2, B=3$? My teacher says 6, But I do not agree. Because there is no operator between $A$ and $B$. Now we are arguing.

I know that $AB$ means $A\times B$ in the daily sense. But it loses the rigorousness of mathematics.

So my question is that, in the rigorous mathematical sense, $AB$ is different from $A\times B$, Right? Because in group theory, you always have to specify your binary operator.

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Notations and symbols are mostly understood with respect to the context.

If $A=2$ and $B=3$ then $AB$ can stand for $23$ which is not $6$.

So we have to pay attention to the context.

For example when we write $35$ we mean $3\times 10 +5$ and we do not mean $3\times 5$

When we deal with vectors, $A\times B$ means cross product and $A.B$ means dot product which are totally different concepts.

In group theory $AB$ and $BA$ are not necessarily the same element while in number theory they are the same number.

Pay attention to the context and everything starts making sense.