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[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (7 children)

This was literally written for twitter content...

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[–] Hawanja@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I just fail to see how you come to the conclusion that it was written in a "mean" way. It's math, there is no "nice" way to write an equation.

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[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (5 children)

it's mean in that they intentionally wrote it to trip people up so we'd have this very conversion...

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[–] Hawanja@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But how do you know they did that? Becuase it's perfectly legit the way it's written.

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[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Because this it's trivial to write it in a way that won't cause this confusion and yet every 3 months or so someone posts another one of these gotcha no context given equations and we as the internet have this same discussion again and again. It's bait...

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[–] Hawanja@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Well, it's causing YOU confusion yes. But to anyone who remembers the order of operation it's not confusing at all.

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[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago

Because this it’s trivial to write it in a way that won’t cause this confusion

Which is exactly how it is written, for all those who remember the rules of Maths.

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[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago

it’s mean in that they intentionally wrote it to

Test who remembers the rules of Maths

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