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• SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The result of a multiplication operation is called a product

  Now you’re getting it - axb=ab. axb is Multiplication of 2 Terms, ab is the single Product. It’s the reason that 8/2(1+3) and 8/2x(1+3) give different answers 🙄

  Show me one textbook where a(b+c)2 gets an a2 term

  I already gave you many that tell you a(b+c)=(ab+ac) Mr. Ostrich - which part of a(b+c)=(ab+ac) are you having trouble understanding?

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Multiplying two things makes them one term.

    “When a product involves a variable, it is customary to omit the symbol X of multiplication. Thus, 3 X n is written 3n and means three times n, and a X b is written ab and means a times b.” Modern Algebra: Structure And Method, page 36. Immediately before the definition you’re now lying about.

    a(b+c) is the same as a*(b+c), and neither a(b+c)^2^ nor a*(b+c)^2^ produce an a^2^ term. You made it up. You’re just full of shit.

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    • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Multiplying two things makes them one term

      You so nearly had it, look “two things”! Yes axb is 2 Terms being Multiplied to make them one 😂

      Immediately before the definition you’re now lying about

      Nope! Says exactly what I already said, and I have no idea why you think it says otherwise. Now read the next page, which tells you ab is one Term and doesn’t say that axb is 1 Term. 🙄 You’re proven wrong by the very textbook you’re quoting from! 😂

      Fuck your non-sequitur

      Says person trying to disprove a(b+c)=(ab+ac) by dragging a(bc)²=ab²c² to try and make a false equivalence argument 😂

      a(b+c)2 is a*(b+c)2

      No it isn’t! 😂 The first is one term, the second is two terms

      for example - these four math textbooks.

      Says Mr. Ostrich, still ignoring the dozens of textbooks I posted saying a(b+c)=(ab+ac)

      No textbook will ever say it produces an a2 term

      No, it produces an ab term and an ac term, a(b+c)=(ab+ac) 🙄

      You made it up. You’re just full of shit

      Says Mr. Ostrich, now completely full of shit, still ignoring the dozens of textbooks I posted, including ones written before I was even born

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes… to make them one.

        a*b and ab are both the product of a and b, and a product is one term. As explained by the textbook you chose.

        a*b^2^ is ab^2^, even if b=(x+y).

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