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mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Careful, you’ll summon Smartman Apps (with emojis) to insist mathematics has exactly one perfect unambiguous syntax, where 2*(1+3) is somehow different from 2(1+3), and also reverse Polish notation does-too have parentheses.
SmartmanApps@programming.dev 2 months ago
It sure does! 😂
Yep, one is Multiplication - 2x3 - the other is The Distributive Law - (2x1+2x3) - both easily found in Maths textbooks
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Fuck off.
SmartmanApps@programming.dev 2 months ago
STILL can’t admit you’re wrong then 😂 I guess you never bothered looking in any Maths textbooks since last time then (or you did and don’t want to admit you found out you were wrong)
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You are the brickest wall on lemmy. Either out of undiagnosed neurodivergence or some aggravating character gimmick, you pretend there is one true way to do a thing, except when you don’t. The commutative property means addition can happen in any order! But multiplication and distribution are totally different (despite getting the same goddamn answer due to the commutative property) and you will never ever shut the fuck up about splitting that hair.
It’s dogma. You’ve internalized one set of rigid instructions, and declared them the rules of all mathematics, to the point you insist Reverse Polish Notation has parentheses. It fucking doesn’t. It literally cannot. Yet it’s an equally valid way to write and do math. It gets the same results, despite distribution being impossible. Last time I tried wedging this uneniable fact through any gap in your mortar, you smugly declared you’d found a way… and then explained multiplication, not distribution. Zero self-awareness. To this day, you are trying to be smug about a time you proudly contradicted yourself.
I feel sorry for students who can’t just tell you:
Go away, patience vampire.