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• Hawanja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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    • Hawanja@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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    • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it’s mean in that they intentionally wrote it to

  Test who remembers the rules of Maths

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