math: that's where i'm a viking
https://mashable.com/article/math-equation-divides-twitter/ (cw: brain-hurting juice)
my hot take:
people who can't tell the difference between an objective reality and a cultural convention, and would never have it dawn on them that there could be a difference between them, are exactly why we can't have nice things and they should all be fed to large jungle cats so i never have to read an argument like this ever again 🐯
fwiw, i think "multiplication implied by parentheses takes precedence over the usual PEMDAC/left-to-right order of operations" is the superior convention, for its flexibility and consistency with algebraic tradition, but i'm not daft enough to think it's objectively right somehow
math: that's where i'm a viking
@zebratron2084 And I don't use either of the methods they mention so hey, bonus confusion! (left to right processing with brackets being sub equations, yo)
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