The full story is actually more nuanced than most people think, but the post is actually very long (about 30min) so thank you in advance if you really find the time to read it.
“The son of YOUR president took a single bribe and showed his ding dong on the internet, my president rapes women, lies about his finances, commits fraud and incites an insurrection! See both side are bad!”
It doesn’t matter though, he’s not the president and is not involved in any politicalmatters. Sure, he should be investigated if he did something wrong, but why is that relevant?
Some put the whole eggs with shells and all. I’ve always found it weird. Who wants to stop eating the cake to peel an egg? But hey. That’s a Spanish Easter Cake for you. (Rosca de Pascua)
Forgot the algebra using fruit emoji or whatever the fuck.
Bonus points for the stuff where suddenly one of the symbols has changed and it's "supposedly" 1/2 or 2/3 etc. of a banana now, without that symbol having been defined.
This is not a math problem but a calculator engineering problem. Some solve the sub operations from right to left while other do it from left to right.
It’s not really a calculator engineering problem. If you don’t have time to read the entire blog you should definitely check out the section “But my calculator says…”. It’s actually about order of operations regarding implicit multiplication.
Jocat gave me a lifetime ban like seven years ago when I sent a message in his twitch chat that didn’t translate right. Sent an apology dm to him in hopes I could clear it up, but that seemed to make things worse. People just don’t give each other the benefit of the doubt on the internet 😔
I can go on about it but I imagine there’s not much interest, just wanted to vent.
My sisters: “You’re way too picky when it comes to dating!”
Also them: — date dudes with so many personal issues that it ends up driving them up the wall and disrupting their lives with obsessive neediness and constant insecurity —
Me: lol ok.
My standards aren’t even that high. I just live in a shitty conservative town and don’t feel like traveling 1 hour+ just to see a human that might just be trying to hookup even though I clearly say that’s not at all what I’m interested in.
Just give me a stable dude who can communicate well, is secure in their sexuality, doesn’t have a criminal record, likes Stardew Valley, lizards, and is cool with stuffed animals, and I’ll give it a shot.
That’s the correct answer if you follow one of the conventions. There are actually two conflicting but equally valid conventions. The blog explains the full story but this math problem is really ambiguous.
Ooh now I get you, sry. True. But sadly you now know the truth and you have to be careful with the implicit multiplications on your tax forms from now on ;-)
I read the whole article. I don’t agree with the notation of the American Physical Society, but who am I to argue that? 😄
I started out thinking I knew how the order of operations worked and ended up with a broader view of the subject. Thank you for opening my mind a bit today. I will be more explicit in my notations from now on.
Thank you so much for taking the time. I’m also not convinced that APS’s notation is a very good choice but I’m neither american nor a physisist 🤣
I’d love to see how the exceptions work that the APS added, like allowing explicit multiplications on line-breaks, if they still would do the multiplication first, but I couldn’t find a single instance where somebody following the APS notation had line-break inside an expression.
I really hate the social media discussion about this. And the comments in the past teached me, there are two different ways of learning math in the world.
True, and it’s not only about learning math but that there is actually no consensus even amongst experts, about the priority of implicit multiplications (without explicit multiplication sign). In the blog post there are a lot of things that try to show why and how that’s the case.
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