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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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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ‘If a+b equals b+a, why is 1/a+b different from 1/b+a?’

      ab means a*b.

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      • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        ‘If a+b equals b+a, why is 1/a+b different from 1/b+a?’

        Because they’re not identically equal 🙄 Welcome to you almost getting the point

        ab means a*b

        means, isn’t equal

        That’s why 1/ab=1/(a*b)

        Nope, it’s because ab==(axb) <== note the brackets duuuhhh!!! 😂

        But we could just as easily say 1/ab = (1/a)*b

        No you can’t! 😂

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        because that distinction is only convention

        Nope! An actual rule, as found not only in Maths textbooks (see above), but in all textbooks - Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, etc. - they all obey ab==(axb)

        None of which excuses your horseshit belief that a(b)2

        says person still ignoring all these textbooks

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