Which of the following special methods is used for overloading the multiplication operator? __mult____mul____times____multiplication__

The special method used for overloading the multiplication operator in Python is __mul__. This method allows you to define how the multiplication operation should behave when applied to instances of a class.

When you define the __mul__ method within a class, you can specify what should happen when two objects of that class are multiplied together using the * operator. For example:

class MyNumber:
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value
    
    def __mul__(self, other):
        return MyNumber(self.value * other.value)

num1 = MyNumber(3)
num2 = MyNumber(4)
result = num1 * num2  # This will call num1.__mul__(num2)
print(result.value)  # Output will be 12

In this example, when num1 * num2 is executed, Python internally calls num1.__mul__(num2), and thus the multiplication operation is customized according to the defined behavior in the class.