Yf a man smyte his servaunte or his mayde with a staffe that they dye vnder his hande, it shalbe auenged. Exodus 21:20 TYN
Addition and multiplication are commutative in most number systems, and, in particular, between natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers and complex numbers.
Commutative property (Wikipedia) In mathematics, a binary operation is commutative if changing the order of the operands does not change the result.