[LeifCarrotson]

If you're a mathematician and not a lawyer you might think those are different operations. But lawyers, judges, and juries have a unique capacity to argue that you're guilty of subtraction even if you only multiplied.

To a lawyer, bits have color: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23.

[naniwaduni]

You can totally find a mathematician to convince you that those are the same operation! Probably easier than the lawyer, even.