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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fuck off.

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not humoring this again

    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)

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You are the brickest wall on lemmy

        Says person who hasn’t looked this up in a Maths textbook 😂

        Either out of undiagnosed neurodivergence or some aggravating character gimmick

        Neither, I’m a Maths teacher

        you pretend there is one true way to do a thing

        There’s no pretending involved, it’s in Maths textbooks

        The commutative property means addition can happen in any order

        Yep, and??

        But multiplication and distribution are totally different

        Nope! They can also be done in any order

        you will never ever shut the fuck up about splitting that hair

        Got no idea who you think you’re talking to, but I never said Multiplication and Division are different

        It’s dogma

        No, it’s the rules of Maths as found in Maths textbooks 😂

        You’ve internalized one set of rigid instructions

        ALL Mathematicians have, if you’re going to put it like that.

        declared them the rules of all mathematics

        As found in Maths textbooks

        to the point you insist Reverse Polish Notation has parentheses

        It adds them in the background, so that you don’t have to - if it didn’t it would return wrong answers - you not having to type them in doesn’t mean they aren’t getting added

        It literally cannot

        …give correct answers without putting each paired operation into brackets

        Yet it’s an equally valid way to write and do math

        and obeys the EXACT SAME RULES 🙄

        It gets the same results

        because it obeys the same rules 🙄

        despite distribution being impossible

        Not impossible at all. Someone even wrote it in one of the other comments! 😂

        Last time I tried wedging this uneniable fact through any gap in your mortar

        you found there were no gaps 😂

        you smugly declared you’d found a way

        And as these very comments show, I’m not the only one to have done so! 😂

        then explained multiplication, not distribution

        No, Distribution.

        Zero self-awareness

        Well, you have zero awareness of what’s in Maths textbooks anyway 😂

        To this day, you are trying to be smug about a time you proudly contradicted yourself

        I have never contradicted myself. You calling Distribution “Multiplication” doesn’t make it Multiplication.

        I feel sorry for students who can’t just tell you

        My students do very well in their exams. How about you? 😂

        Go away, patience vampire

        Still can’t admit you were wrong then 🙄

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