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…
Hawanja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
TheKingBee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
it’s mean in that they intentionally wrote it to trip people up so we’d have this very conversion…
Hawanja@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But how do you know they did that? Becuase it’s perfectly legit the way it’s written.
TheKingBee@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
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…