Comment on I dunno

• TheKingBee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    it’s mean in that they intentionally wrote it to

    Test who remembers the rules of Maths

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  • Hawanja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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      • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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      • Hawanja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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