Yeah, but as an adult it depends entirely on whether you’re in an industry or hobby that requires that level of bracket nuance/exponents.
Most of us are just trying to remember the basics.
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cobysev@lemmy.world 4 hours agoThe way I was taught growing up, brackets are [these]. Parenthesis are (these).
Yes, technically the latter are also brackets. But they can also be called parenthesis, whereas the former is exclusively a bracket. So we were taught to call them separate words to differentiate while doing equations.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 46 minutes ago
I’m a theoretical physics grad student and a night school maths teacher, I have never heard this distinction. People in academia around me call them round and square brackets.