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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is you admitting there’s no difference. You insist they’re not the same. How?

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You insist they’re not the same. How?

    Not difficult, I already did in another post. If a=2 and b=3…

    1/ab=1/(axb)=1/(2x3)=1/6

    1/axb=1/2x3=3/2=1.5

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s convention for notation, not a distinction between a*b and ab both being the product of a and b. ab means a*b.

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      • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s convention for notation

        Nope, still rules

        not a distinction between a*b and ab

        says person who only read 2 sentences out of the book, the book which proves the statement wrong 😂

        a*b and ab both being the product of a and b

        Nope, only ab is the product, and you would already know that if you had read more than 2 sentences 😂

        You have to slap 1/ in front of things and pretend that’s the subject

        “identically equal”, which you claimed it means, means it will give the same answer regardless of what’s put in front of it. You claimed it was identical, I proved it wasn’t.

        avoid these textbooks telling you

        It kills you actually, but you didn’t read any of the parts which prove you are wrong 🙄just cherry pick a couple of sentences out of a whole chapter about order of operations 🙄

        They are the same thing. They are one term

        Nope! If they were both 1 term then they would give the same answer 🙄

        1/ab=1/(axb)=1/(2x3)=1/6

        1/axb=1/2x3=3/2=1.5

        Welcome to why axb is not listed as a Term on Page 37, which if you had read all the pages up until that point, you would understand why it’s not 1 Term 🙄

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