Obelix@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agoA fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 monthswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square171fedilinkarrow-up1242arrow-down127
arrow-up1215arrow-down1external-linkA fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 monthswww.engadget.comObelix@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square171fedilink
minus-square💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 day ago And that’s why people don’t write equations like that Says someone who clearly hasn’t looked in any Maths textbooks If you wrote 6 + 4 / 2 in a paper you’d get reviewers complaining that it’s ambiguous Only if their Maths was very poor. #MathsIsNeverAmbiguous Working mathematicians never came up with PEMDAS Yes they did. which disambiguates it without parenthesis It was never ambiguous to begin with. Noone else does it that way Says someone who has never looked in a non-U.S. Maths textbooks - BIDMAS, BODMAS, BEDMAS, all textbooks have one variation or another.
Says someone who clearly hasn’t looked in any Maths textbooks
Only if their Maths was very poor. #MathsIsNeverAmbiguous
Yes they did.
It was never ambiguous to begin with.
Says someone who has never looked in a non-U.S. Maths textbooks - BIDMAS, BODMAS, BEDMAS, all textbooks have one variation or another.