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[–] casmael@mander.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I’m only going to say this once but if I’m doing a sum and you want me to do it in a specific order, use brackets. That’s what brackets are for. Don’t expect me to do things in a predetermined order because I literally can’t be bothered and I will never care enough to do that. I’m already doing a sum so don’t push it, okay bud

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[+] foliumcreations@lemmy.world -6 points 2 weeks ago

Very funny joke, but I don't agree with the division sign. Its supposed to be either a / or \ depending on which way you want to divide.

[+] Panamalt@sh.itjust.works -17 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Imma be weird and argue that the answer actually should be 4.

Dear Aunt Sally is great or whatever, but syntax also fuckin matters. We can all probably agree that the faster, more intuitive answer is obviously 4. Most of those in the western world (meme's largest audience) read left-to-right and there is nothing the delineate that division must actually come before inverse addition until one has carefully examined the entire the problem (which you should definitely be doing, dumb-dumb) and slapped on another layer of thinking (inefficient waste of time when doing quick mafs). Use the damn parenthesis, ffs!

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