Comment on I dunno
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoYou can stop humoring this broken robot. Especially when the context is ‘yeah I already said this textbook is wrong, but I am better than you because you need to read this textbook.’
Comment on I dunno
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoYou can stop humoring this broken robot. Especially when the context is ‘yeah I already said this textbook is wrong, but I am better than you because you need to read this textbook.’
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 months ago
They seem to believe that and on the 8th day God made the one true objective order of operations that all humans use and agree on.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Except for that time the definition changed 130 years ago. Which is not a rule! It’s notation, or syntax, or possibly sometimes a rule. Whichever one lets them sneer hardest.
I tried explaining RPN to them a year ago. They still insist there’s parentheses in it. Today they called it an “app.”
Dogmatic patience vampire is still trying to bait me into further wasted effort.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 months ago
Wowww. Insisting that they’re good at math. I distinctly remember learning that RPN doesn’t need parentheses in college.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation
But, you know, anyone can edit Wikipedia. Someone probably put that there who hasn’t opened a math textbook.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Oh of course. The sky isn’t blue unless that’s written in a maths textbook.
And if you look up and see stars, it’s still blue, because it’s written in a maths textbook! Are you saying a teacher could be wrong?!, smug emoji, crying emoji, roll-eyes emoji?