• onion@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    The problem isn’t math, it’s the people that suck at at it who write ambigous terms like this, and all the people in the comments who weren’t educated properly on what conventions are.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, you could easily make this more straightforward by putting parentheses around 8÷2. It’s like saying literature sucks because Finnegans Wake is incomprehensible.

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      11 months ago

      Huge shout out to the jaded AF high school math teachers that don’t give a fuck any more!