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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·4 days agoNot, according to you
Which part of βevery single postβ do you have trouble comprehending? Honestly dude, need to go back to school and learn to read π
You underlined some crap in the manuals that doesnβt mean what you said it meant
= doesnβt mean equals??? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£
Whyβd you bring up your calculator if you donβt actually want to talk about it?
Which part of youβve been proven wrong so thereβs nothing further to discuss didnβt you understand? π See above about learning to read
Are not necessary to evaluate such expressions.
says person contradicting the manual which says you cannot do it π€£π€£π€£π€£

but sure, go ahead and tell us how you can do a simple calculation that has multiple brackets, but without brackets, and without splitting it up, Iβll wait π€£π€£π€£
You can use a calculator that uses RPN.
Yes, a calculator where the brackets are built-in, unlike this calculator π
but was not available on mass market models because⦠it requires
Brackets
Now do you get why pocket calculators had no stack?
says person ignoring that weβve already established that they did have a stack. Dude, youβre just going in circles.
you have no explanation for why the calculator could not perform the expression without splitting it, since bracket keys are not necessary to do so
says person who has yet to show how it can be done without brackets, since it canβt be done without brackets. π a(b+c)+d(e+f) is the example from the manual - go ahead and tell us how you can do it without brackets and without splitting it up.
exists in the use of the += button - is never discussed in the manual.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAH! (deep breath) HAHAHAHAA! Itβs right there in the examples! π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£

you just made it up
says person making up that the lack of brackets keys is somehow not the reason you canβt do expressions with multiple brackets in them, even though they canβt come up with a way to do so π€£π€£π€£
youβve been called out on
nothing. You still havenβt come up with a way to do an expression with multiple brackets on a calculator that has no brackets. How can I do a(b+c)+d(e+f) on a calculator with no brackets, and GO! π€£π€£π€£
You could get out of all this by just admitting that the Sinclair Executive had no stack and operates from left to right.
the proof is right there in the example that it doesnβt π A fact which you still havenβt admitted to

Sure there is.
says person unable to produce any Maths textbook that itβs in, because there isnβt any such thing
What you mean is, you prefer not to use the term βimplicit multiplicationβ
No, I mean there is literally no such thing, hence why itβs not in any Maths textbooks
if you google the term, you can find the definition
If you Google unicorns and fairies you can find them as well, but you wonβt find them in any Science textbooks either.
like a mathematician
exactly what I did, unless you think there are Mathematicians who would entertain discussion about fairies being real beyond βthereβs no such thingβ?
In your imaginary classroom you can make your poor students use whatever terminology you like
We donβt use terminology with things we donβt teach them. Do you think some teachers teach their students about unicorns and fairies being real?
I, and the rest of the internet, can use the terminology we agree upon.
Yes, delusional people can agree upon their delusions, no disagreement from me there! π€£π€£π€£
Read to the end of the comment before shooting off your comment, and you wouldnβt be such an embarrassment.
No embarrassment from me - Iβve proven everything in the comment wrong.

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they donβt emulate scientific calculators
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they donβt emulate basic four-function calculators
In both cases they just give wrong answers
I have never used Microsoft Maths Solver but it bears no resemblance to a calculator so I donβt care
Iβll take that as an admission of being wrong - all software calculators (MathSolver wasnβt the only one I discussed, which you wouldβve known had you bothered reading it), somehow bear no resemblance to actual calculators, got it. Been telling you that all along BTW π€£π€£π€£
You still havenβt come up with a good explanation
which part didnβt you understand in different programmers work on different parts?
And honestly, I think itβs disgusting that you never wash yourself.
No idea what youβre talking about, must be another case of Projection.
Do you not remember that there were two manuals?
Which part did you not understand in the second one was a chain calculator? Youβre going round in circles again
Either way, you have no explanation
I already explained dude. Saying I didnβt doesnβt magically make it disappear.
Try and find one that gives an example of typing in a + b x c and getting a+bc. You canβt.
Umm, the first one does, as I already pointed out π€£π€£π€£ Guess what happens you you omit the circled keypressβ¦

if people have been using these (βniche!!!1β) calculators for decades
Go ahead and see if you can find any engineers using them. Iβll wait
The only reason you must do so is to pass high school maths
and for planes to not fall out of the sky
The goal of the game is for you to put the brackets in, OK?
You know the order of operations rules predate use of Brackets in Maths by many centuries, right? How do you think they knew what to do, without brackets? Iβll wait π€£π€£π€£
You put the word βsmartβ in your name,
says person proving how often they make wrong assumptions. π€£π€£π€£π€£ You couldβve just asked me about it, but no, you literally never check facts first, just launch into provably wrong made up statements π€£π€£π€£
so Iβm hoping youβre smart enough to work it out!
Person it refers to agrees with me - who woulda thought?? π€£π€£π€£
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·4 days agoanswer the question, deflecter :)
I havenβt deflected. I told you to go read up on the history of it and you would discover what was being talked about. Since you apparently donβt know how to use Google either, hereβs a link for you
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·4 days agoyou said that something never happens
happens - present tense
which, in fact, has happened
happened - past tense. Even you wrote that in different tenses π€£π€£π€£ Iβll take that as another admission that you were wrong then
I assume youβd really agree that I am never wrong - right?
Every single post you make is wrong! You are continuously wrong all the time, and Iβm guessing always have been wrong as well π€£π€£π€£
itβs strange you didnβt take up my offer to show this calculator of yours
No itβs not. Weβve already settled that you claim was wrong and moved on, and I already said so at the time Mr. abysmal reading comprehension, and we know you hate long responses, so go back and read the short replies again π€£π€£π€£
βa problem such as (a+b)c + (d+e)f cannot be done as a simple calculation, it must be split into two parts.β
thatβs because it has no brackets keys dude. Weβve already been over it. Youβre so wrong youβve run out of arguments to make and youβre now trying to rehash other stuff
There is no reason that it would need to be split if the calculator had
brackets keys
You have no explanation for why this calculator could not perform this calculation without splitting it.
no brackets keys π
Now, youβve done a silly with the software calculators there,
says person deflecting from the fact that theyβve been proven wrong, again, and canβt man up and admit to having been wrong, again π
weβre talking about order of operations,
which you were proven wrong about.
not how calculators render implicit multiplication
thereβs no such thing as βimplicit multiplicationβ is why we werenβt talking about it
you really ought to keep these things straight in your mind
says person trying to pretend they didnβt say βeven though they (developers) can make scientific calculator modes work correctly!β - which I then proved wrong, so more deflection ensues

which they donβt make them work correctly

Iβll rephrase: you have no sane explanation for why scientific mode tends to obey a different order of operations than basic mode on software calculators
I see you didnβt even try any of them (nor even read my thread about them). Had you done so, you wouldβve discovered that ones such as the Microsoft Maths Solver sometimes does, sometimes doesnβt, so where in your βsaneβ explanation can you account for the same calculator only sometimes obeying the rules. Spoiler alert: different programmers with different ideas of what the order of operations rules are, as I have been saying all along - youβre wrong again dude. π€£π€£π€£ yet again charging into easily proven wrong statements, rather than checking facts first
I do, and itβs because theyβre emulating basic, four-function calculators which had no stack
which you were proven wrong about by the manual you posted. So weβre all done then. Donβt let the door hit you on the way out
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·4 days agoabout a page saying βother rules may have been adoptedβ suggests anything others than that different rules may have been adopted?
says person revealing they havenβt read about the history behind that comment π
You know by know that no-one but you agrees with your interpretations.
All the textbooks agree dude, which you would know if you had read more, but youβve chosen to remain an ignorant gaslighter
You canβt find a single explicit agreement with them
With what?
Reposting the same pages that you are misinterpreting is very silly, isnβt it
says person who canβt post anything that agrees with their silly interpretation π€£π€£π€£
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
11Β·5 days agoBecause every single textbook youβve cited, I absolutely guarantee itβ¦ was written in the past!
But being used in schools right now, and youβre desperately trying to twist my words around to mean something else because you canβt find any textbooks which say juxtaposition, except for one from 1912 π€£π€£π€£
How shall we make sense of this conundrum?
Youβre the only one who has issues with understanding present and past tense dude, youβre the only one trying to use a 1912 textbook in the argument.
βI never use drugsβ doesnβt mean the same as βI am not using drugs at the momentβ
Yes it does, because βI never use drugsβ isnβt the same as βI have never used drugsβ π
So yeah, you absolutely said the wrong thing
I absolutely didnβt Mr. I can only find it in a 1912 textbook π€£π€£π€£
your reason for using it is stupid.
says person trying to bring a 1912 textbook into the argument only to avoid admitting having been wrong π
If you were any kind of reasonable person and not someone incapable of admitting the slightest mistake
So not like you, which Iβm not π
you would have said, βoh, sorry, I meant that textbooks donβt use the word βjuxtapositionβ any moreβ
Itβs already there in the use of the present tense
Mate, try and keep track. Weβre talking about a specific calculator and its specific manual.
And it specifically says you are wrong π
Your calculator is not relevant to that one.
So when you said all, you didnβt really mean all, so an admission that you were wrong about βallβ. Got it. Thanks for playing. Glad weβre done with the βbasicβ calculator topic then

βSays person lyingβ is your favourite
statement of fact
deflection
says person talking about calculators that donβt have brackets because heβs absolutely proven wrong about The Distributive Law, and is trying to deflect away from admitting being wrong about that π
the calculators we all had in primary school, If you press the following sequence of buttons: 2 + 3 x 5 =, the answer it will give is
17
even though they can make scientific calculator modes work correctly!
Nope! They donβt! With the exception of MathGPT, they all ignore The Distributive Law, you know, the actual original topic π€£π€£π€£ The Windows calculator in Scientific mode says 8/2(1+3)=16, because, when you type it in, it changes it to 8/2x(1+3). Itβs hilarious how you just keep making easily proven wrong statements and bring more embarrassment upon yourself, instead of just, you know, checking facts first π€£π€£π€£


Sharp calculator obeying The Distributive Law
Note that neither MathGPT, nor the Sharp calculator, forcibly add in a multiply sign where it doesnβt belong. Welcome to dumb programmer who has forgotten how The Distributive Law works and didnβt bother checking in a Maths textbook first.
yet thereβs such a simple explanation! Theyβre emulating basic four-function calculators that have existed for decades
No theyβre not! Just like theyβre also not emulating Scientific calculators that have existed for decades! π€£π€£π€£
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
11Β·5 days agoDo you see the contradiction between the following two statements
Nope!
Maths textbooks never use the word βjuxtapositionβ
Use of the present tense, no reference to the past at all
A textbook from1912
before you or I was even born
Need to work on your comprehension dude if you see a contradiction there
Is a textbook from 1912 not a textbook?
Does anything in what I said refer to textbooks in the past? That would be past tense, βhave never usedβ. Need to work on your comprehension dude
Does βneverβ mean something different where youβre from?
Is there no difference between past tense and present tense where you are from?
Your exact words were βMaths textbooks never use the wordβ.
Yep, exact use of present tense there
Do you stand by that statement now?
Yep
Do you want to admit it was incorrect?
Nope
This is actually even clearer than the lie
Not a lie. Nothing I have ever said is a lie
where you said you didnβt use different screenshots
Never said that either liar. Noted lack of screenshots, or have you still not worked out how to do that yet?
You get the same result if you donβt press the plus button at that point
No you donβt! a+bxc and (a+b)xc arenβt the same thing! π€£π€£π€£
In what example in the manual
Unlike you I have an actual calculator, no need to look in manuals for how they work. Other dude posted a link where you can buy one for under $10. Go ahead and get one, and let me know what answer it gives you to 2+3x4. Iβll wait π€£π€£π€£
There is no such example
Hence I can confirm it on my own βnon-scientific, non-graphingβ calculator, unlike you who appears to not even own a calculator at all, and so is grasping at straws with online manuals π€£π€£π€£
The annotated screenshot you keep posting is an example of left-to-right evaluation
No it isnβt! Itβs an example of evaluating when you press the equals key π€£π€£π€£ I knew you wouldnβt admit to being wrong. π
Youβre just wrongly claiming that pressing the + button for the second time changes the behaviour of the manual
Says person lying about the += button, which acts as a + button when followed by a number, and as an = button when followed by anything else. Note that pressing it turns a+b into (a+b) and not a+b+ π
Youβre just wrongly claiming that pressing the + button for the second time changes the behaviour of the manual
says person lying about how a += button works π
Your screenshot says that βcalculations can usually be reconstructed as simple chainsβ
Yep, therefore it is a chain calculator, Mr. needs to go to remedial reading classes
Youβre using that as evidence that the calculator is not a normal calculator
canβt do that with a normal calculator, which you would know if you had one! π€£π€£π€£
Itβs so interesting that you couldnβt find anything in the manual saying, βthis is a special kind of calculatorβ
says person lying about the screenshot saying you can use chains with it π
A mystery.
Itβs not a mystery why you ignore whatβs in screenshots - canβt admit to being wrong about anything π Your latest adventure involves pretending that present tense means past tense
Buddy, βchain calculatorsβ as you call them are exactly the basic, four-function, stackless, cheapo calculators you can buy for three quid
says person revealing his lack of knowledge about different types of calculators, and also that he is lacking 3 quid to buy one and try it first hand
canβt admit that theyβre normal,
says person who doesnβt own a normal calculator, canβt admit they arenβt normal, because canβt admit to being wrong about anything π
Iβm sure I have one lying around somewhere,
Iβm sure you donβt, or you wouldnβt be hunting around online manuals desperately looking for something to twist into agreeing with you
Want to make a bet on what itβll output?
with a proven liar. Nope. Iβm sure you would go out and buy a chain calculator, then claim it was a βnormalβ calculator you just had lying around which you magically happened to find
Itβs weird that your pettiness goes as far as not taking the W when itβs handed to you, dude
Itβs weird that youβre pretending that you admitted to begin wrong about something when you didnβt. Wait a minute, no it isnβt. Weβve already established youβre a gaslighter who canβt admit to being wrong about anything π
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·5 days agojust stop it itβs not cool its not funny its not impressing everyone
Itβs not meant to be cool, or funny, or impress anyone. Itβs fact-checking disinformation
youβre just going to feel badly about it later
Nope! Feels good every time I stop a gaslighter
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·6 days agoI was happy to read more
so why didnβt you then? Why did you ask for more screenshots instead of just reading more?
did so extensively
So you did read more and so then continued to lie about what the book said. Got it.
That was first clear when you were given conclusive evidence of calculators working other than how you said they did
Nope! The first manual proved you were wrong about that, and you have still not admitted to being wrong about it. Here it is for you yet again, the proof that it does not in fact go left to right, but evaluates what you typed in so far because you pushed the equals button π Every calculator will evaluate what you have typed in so far if you push the equals button. And you have to do that with this calculator because it doesnβt have brackets keys, so you press the equals button to evaluate it before entering the rest

you even agreed,
Nope! I posted the same screenshot I just posted again right here, which you have ignored every single time I have posted it, and never admitted to being wrong about it
yet (falsely) said βthatβs a niche, chain calculatorβ
Not false - it was right there in the manual! π

instead of addressing how it can be that this calculator and many others
NO other calculators work that way, as seen in the first manual you posted.
donβt work how you think they should.
They all work the same way except for chain calculators, a lie you have still not admitted to yet, despite being presented with the proof from the very manual you posted first
It was made crystal clear when you said that βno textbook uses the term juxtapositionβ
Yep!
when a textbook you were quoting from actually did use the term,
A 1912 textbook π
βoh, sorry, I meant βno recent textbookββ
Did I say no textbook ever has used juxtaposition. No, I did not. So now you are just twisting words to try and make them match your own narrative. Sorry if you thought Maths teachers go back and read every textbook ever written over the centuries, even though many of them are now outdated. No idea why you would think that anyone does that.
You did explicitly claim, that all basic calculators evaluate left to right, which was already proven false by the very first manual you posted(!) π€£ and you still havenβt admitted you were wrong. Thereβs no ambiguity, you explicitly said all of them.
βno recent textbookββ you denied and deflected
Nope, liar. I pointed out then, as I have just now, again, that itβs a 1912 textbook. I can most certainly go back and get screenshots if youβre going to lie about it.
you cannot. admit. a. mistake
says person who has still not pointed out any error I have made (just made up that I meant βeverβ even though I never said βeverβ), and has still not admitted to being wrong about the calculators. Just ignores it every single time I bring it up because in fact it is you who cannot admit to being wrong about anything
admit that when you wrote that no textbook uses the term juxtaposition you were actually wrong
I wasnβt wrong. I never said no textbook ever, and itβs ridiculous of you to insinuate that I did when I didnβt. Most sane people know that textbooks that are more than 100 years old (which it is) are out of date - the definition of Division had only recently changed for starters. meanwhile you, who did explicitly use the word all when talking about "non-scientific, non-graphing* calculators, hasnβt admitted to being wrong about that, despite being disproven by the very first manual you posted π€£π€£π€£
Itβll feel good, I promise
Nope, lying never feels good
You have to click the preview, genius.
says someone who doesnβt know how to post screenshots
Ok, has to scroll past ads to find it π
Yep, no admission of being wrong about anything in there, so thanks for providing the proof that you never admitted to being wrong about anything π€£π€£π€£

Let me know if you want any online tutoring about how to take and post screenshots. Itβs not hard when you have facts to back you up.
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·6 days agoAll mathematical proofs can be written in that form, otherwise they are not proofs
says person confirming he doesnβt know much about Mathematical proofs π
All kinds of proof are merely special cases of the general kind I told you about
No theyβre not, and you even admitted at the time that it had limitations π
You didnβt know this?? Yeesh
Yes, I knew you only knew about one kind of proof, hence why I told you to go back to high school and re-learn all the other types that we teach to students
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·6 days agoIβve given you the definition of a proof before
You gave the defintion of one kind of proof. Iβll take that as an admission then that you canβt fault any of my proofs, since you canβt point out anything wrong with any of them, only that they donβt use the only proof method you know of, having forgotten the other proof methods that were taught to you in high school π€£π€£π€£
if you canβt work out why what you wrote doesnβt match
I already know why it doesnβt match, that doesnβt make it not a proof, DUUUUHHH!!! π€£π€£π€£ You need to go back to high school and learn about the other methods of proof that we use. You only seem to know the one you use in your little bubble.
you just canβt do maths.
Says person who only knows of ONE way to prove anything in Maths! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! π€£π€£π€£
Taken as an admission that I have indeed proved my points then, as I already knew was the case.
Thatβs ok, as Barbie taught us βmath is hard!β
Is THAT why you only know ONE method of proof - you learnt from Barbie??? π€£π€£π€£
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·6 days agoDude, I donβt care that you asked me to read more
Iβll take that as an admission of being bad faith the whole time then, exactly as I said.
If you send a screenshot that doesnβt contain a word and then canβt admit that this is true
says person who was sent a screenshot of how their claim about the calculator order of operations is wrong and canβt admit it π
then canβt admit that this is true
You need remedial reading classes as well dude.
canβt about that you denied all of this wrongly
Thatβs quite a word salad. You wanna try that again and make sense this time?
weβre not at a point where me reading more is in my interests
Yet again admitting you were bad faith the whole time π
it will not get us to a point where we can have a discussion on even terms.
and it never will since you keep refusing to read anything. You expect me to paste the whole textbook into here??? π Dude, you are the worst bad faith person I have ever come across.
show me that itβs worth it,
Go back and read every textbook reference I have already posted, you know, those things you keep stubbornly ignoring in every single reply.
If you want a discussion
I donβt care. Iβm just fact-checking your made-up BS for the benefit of any unfortunate person to come across it. If you had wanted a discussion, then you would have discussed it with me, something which you have so far refused to do.
that there is a chance that I could convince you of even the smallest thing
There isnβt, because youβre contradicting what every Maths teacher and author already knows. π You even posted a calculator manual which proved you were wrong, and you still wonβt admit to having been wrong about it.
admit that you made an error
says person who still canβt point out a single error that I have made ever π
talk about what you actually want to talk about
I already posted all the proof, you just keep ignoring it. I donβt have any interest at all in talking about it, itβs all there in the textbooks that you keep ignoring.
I am capable of admitting a mistake, sorry but I already did so at the bottom of this comment:
Umm, what??? I donβt see any admission of anything. Why is it that none of you gaslighters know how to take screenshots of anything?

I am capable of admitting a mistake, sorry but I already did so at the bottom of this comment:
BTW given your admission of not reading my reply to that one, you were quoting a 1912 textbook, not, you know, a 1965 or later textbook π
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·6 days agoAnd yet you were unable to reply with a proof. So sad
Says person unable to point out in what way it wasnβt a proof, so sad π€£π€£π€£
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·6 days agoThatβs some awful impressive goalpost shifting
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Says person refusing to acknowledge that itβs in textbooks the difference between conventions and rules π€£π€£π€£
Gold medal mental gymnastics winner
Yep, I know you are. Thatβs why you had to post known to be wrong blogs, because you couldnβt find any textbooks that agree with you π€£π€£π€£
And here you are, still unable to explain why prefix and postfix notation donβt have an operator precedence.
Speaking of goalpost shifting - what happened to they donβt have rules?? THAT was your point before, and now you have moved the goalposts when I pointed out that the blog was wrong π€£π€£π€£
Iβm still waiting
says person who has still not posted any textbook at all with anything at all that agrees with them, to someone who has posted multiple textbooks that prove you are wrong, and now you are deflecting π€£π€£π€£π€£
They literally donβt
they literally *do., Thatβs why the rules get mentioned once at the start of the blog - itβs the same rules duuuhhh!!! π€£π€£π€£
I defy you to show me a single source that tells you that prefix or postfix notation use PEDMAS.
PEMDAS isnβt the rules, itβs a convention
Iβll even take Quora answers
I wonβt take anything but textbooks, and youβve still come up with none
Iβll even take a reputable source talking about prefix/postfix that doesnt bring up how order of operations isnβt required for those notations.
Thatβs exactly what the blog you posted does. I knew you hadnβt read it! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! π€£π€£π€£ Iβll take that as an admission of being wrong then
No, youβve show a screenshot from a random PDF
of a Maths textbook, with the name of the textbook in the top left, and the page number also in the top left. π€£π€£π€£
Infix notation needs extra information to make the order of evaluation of the operators clear:
rules built into the language about operator precedence and associativity
Yep, says nothing about operator precedence being tied to the notation, exactly as I just said, so thatβs a fail from you then

But then you go on to say something to the effect of βanyone who knows the rules can the extra informationβ
derive the rules is what I said liar. The only thing you need to know is the definition of the operators, everything else follows logically from there.
Which is both unsubstantiated given the long history of not having PEDMAS
The order of operations rules are way older than PEMDAS. It even says it in one of the blogs you posted that PEMDAS is quite recent, again showing you didnβt actually read any of it. π
No, youβve show a screenshot from a random PDF
Nothing random about it. The name of the textbook is in the top left. Go ahead and search for it and let me know what you find. Iβll wait π€£π€£π€£

What math textbook and what edition is it?
So, youβre telling me you donβt know how to look at the name of the PDF and search for it?? π€£π€£π€£ I can tell you now itβs the #1 hit on Google
The fact you think that factorization has to do with order of operations is shocking
says person revealing they donβt know anything about order of operations π€£π€£π€£ Make sure you let all the textbook authors know as well π€£π€£π€£
Yes the multiplication is done first
No, Brackets are done first.
The law is about converting between a sum of a common product and a product of sums
Nope. Thatβs the Distributive Property, and yes indeed, the Property has nothing to do with order of operations, but the Distributive Law has everything to do with order of operations.
No matter how you write them, it will always be about those things,
The Property will, the Law isnβt
so the multiplication always happens first.
No, Brackets are always done first
Itβs crazy that youβre not able to distinguish between mathematical concepts and the notation we use to describe them
says person who doesnβt even know the difference between a Property and a Law, and, as far as I can tell, have never even heard of The Distributive Law, given they keep talking about the Property
But putting that aside, thatβs not a proof of PEDMAS.
Right, itβs a proof of the order of operations rules for Brackets π
If PEDMAS is an actual law
It isnβt, itβs a convention
There are proofs for 1+1
Itβs true by definition. Thereβs nothing complex about it. Just like ab=(axb) is true by definition
if PEDMAS is a law
It isnβt, itβs a convention. Not sure how many times you need to be told that π
or an textbook snippet
You mean like textbook snippets stating that The Distributive Law is the reverse operation to Factorising?? See above π€£π€£π€£
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·6 days agoWhat I said was
After I had repeatedly said read more, but you refused to, Mr. Iβm only pretending to be good faith, so welcome to the embarrassment you suffered from not doing what I said π
Then you replied with different screenshots
From the same page, the page you refused to read π Again, welcome to an embarrassment of your own making. Thatβll teach you that actual good faith people will read more π
When I pointed that out, you said βnoβ
β¦same page, a point you are still stubbornly refusing to acknowledge. Just look at the fact that you left it out of what you were quoting! π€£π€£π€£ You donβt want to acknowledge that it was there the whole time and you just refused to read any of it, Mr. βGood faithβ π€£π€£π€£
Youβre referring to other ways in which youβre wrong
Nope, you, thatβs why you are still refusing to reply to them, pretend like you never saw the proof that you were wrong π€£π€£π€£ Go ahead, reply to them, tell me where Iβm supposedly wrong, according to you. Iβll wait, ready with textbooks to prove you wrong, again π€£π€£π€£
You could admit you used different screenshots
says Mr. Poor comprehension, as I already pointed out, but you are also not replying to that to also not admit anything of your own fault π€£π€£π€£
you could admit that saying βno, same pageβ
And you could admit to how many times I told you to read more, but you stubbornly refused, hence the current embarrassment you find yourself in. I shouldnβt have needed to even post any more screenshots at all, Mr. βGood faithβ π€£π€£π€£ But here we are Mr. bad faith
you could admit that, indeed, the word βmultiplicationβ never appeared in those first screenshots
And you could admit that you never read anything at all from the textbook, and were just belligerently making up arguments based on what you saw in the screenshots, Mr. bad faith. Welcome to what happens when you refuse to engage in good faith arguments.
Go on, cough up literally one thing
Letβs start with you were wrong about the first calculator evaluating left to right

I did it already, as a show of good will, you can do it too!
No you havenβt! You havenβt admitted to anything
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1Β·6 days agoHas anyone tried TextTransform with a Button on Android? I originally tried all sorts of things to get my Android buttons to be lower-case, and nothing worked, it was always all-caps regardless of the original case, because βMaterial design on Androidβ, π and I ended up giving up on it. Would love to try this out but Iβve recently reinstalled and havenβt finished yet, so I havenβt got anything ready to go to try it out and see if it works with Android Buttons.
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·6 days agoOur friend doesnβt know what a mathematical proof is,
says person who doesnβt know enough about Maths to prove the order of operations rules, which literally anyone can do for themselves if they know all the operator and grouping symbols definitions π€£π€£π€£
will instead try to give you an example in which he posits a real-world calculation, writes down an arithmetic expression for it according to one convention, interprets it with another, gets a different answer, and tells you this is βproofβ that itβs wrong
I have no idea who youβre talking about, but it ainβt me! π
writes down an arithmetic expression for it according to
the definitions of the operators π
When I explained to him
was precisely nothing
how you could write down the expression according to a different convention, then interpret it with the same convention and get the same answer, he just denied, denied, denied
What you mean is I actually proved you wrong about βdifferent conventionsβ (noted you still donβt know the difference between conventions and rules), but youβre pretending it never happened π
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
11Β·6 days agoA claim entirely unsupported by the textbook example you provided
says person who pointed out to begin with it was talking about conventions. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I even underlined it for you. Ok, then, tell me which convention exactly they are talking about if it isnβt left to right π
Nowhere does it say that one is a convention
It quite clearly states that left to right is a convention π
but not the other
βthe otherβ wasnβt even the subject at hand. π Here you go thenβ¦

it only says that removing brackets changes the meaning in some situations, which is fully within the scope of a convention
But not within the scope of rules π
There you go again, just admitting you donβt know what postfix and prefix notations are.
There you go again not being able to say what the RULES for them are! π€£π€£π€£ I admitted nothing of the kind by the way. I already told you 3 times they obey the same rules π
here is a great free article from Colorado State university
Itβs pretty rubbish actually - finding a blog post by someone as ill-informed as you doesnβt make it βgreatβ. Note that I always cite Maths textbooks and thus have no need to ever quote blog posts? π
Note how it says the rules about operator precedence are for the notation
Because (sigh) the same rules apply to all notations π
which itself is a convention, as all notations are
Yep, and are separate to the rules, which are the same for all notations
Note how it says the rules about operator precedence are for the notation
Nope. Doesnβt say that anywhere. Go ahead and screenshot the part which you think says that. Iβll wait
how prefix and postfix donβt need those rules
Doesnβt say that either. π Again, provide a screenshot of where you think it says that
BTW this is completely wrongβ¦
βInfix notation needs extra information to make the order of evaluation of the operators clearβ - Anyone who knows the definitions of the operators and grouping symbols is able to derive the rules for themselves, no need for any βextra informationβ π
βFor example, the usual rules for associativity say that we perform operations from left to rightβ - The thing we just established is a convention, not rules π
βso the multiplication by A is assumed to come before the division by Dβ - Which weβve already established can be done in any order π
How embarrassing for you
No, you actually. You know, the person who canβt find a single textbook that agrees with them π
Here are some more materials
NONE of which were Maths textbooks, NOR Maths teachers π
A post by Berkley university about popular ambiguous equations
None of which are actually ambiguous. He shouldβve looked in a Maths textbook before writing it π
βthe 48/2(9+3) questionβ - 48/2(9+3)=48/(2x9+2x3), per The Distributive Law, as found in Maths textbooks π

A published paper from Berkley that has been cited, with much stronger language on the matter
Did you even read it?? Dude doesnβt even know the definition of Terms, ab=(axb) π€£π€£π€£

Here is an article from the university of Melbourne
βWithout an agreed upon orderβ - Ummm, we have proven rules, which literally anyone can prove to themselves π
Article from the university of utah
βThere is no mathematical reason for the conventionβ - There are reasons for all the conventions - talk about admitting right at the start that you donβt know much about Maths π
A howstuffworks article on order of operations that explains it
It only explains the mnemonics actually, not why the rules are what they are. π
Did you read it?? π€£π€£π€£

βThe order of operations β as Americans know it today β was probably formalized in either the late 18th centuryβ - Nope! Way older than that π
doesnβt have the pedigree of a university, but still clearly explained
It actually did a better job than all of the university blogs you posted! π€£π€£π€£
Plus dozens of Quora answers, articles from online academies and learning centers, that I figured youβd just dismiss.
Because not Maths textbooks, duuuuhhhh π€£π€£π€£
But to top it all off, if this was truely a law of mathematics
Which it is as per Maths textbooks π€£π€£π€£
then show me a proof, theorem, or even a mathematical conjecture, about order of operations.
The proof is itβs the reverse operation to Factorising, thus must be done first π


But since you hate Maths textbooks, go ahead and search for βreverse operation of distributive lawβ and let me know what you find. Iβll wait π€£π€£π€£
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memes@lemmy.worldβ’Math is not a democracyEnglish
1Β·6 days agoyou said βno, same pageβ
Yes, me, the person who urged you repeatedly to read more so that you couldβve avoided this whole embarrassment to begin with, and thus gave you yet another chance to read what it said, but you were too stubborn, and so here we are, you being embarrassed because you refused to read one page of a textbook π
you couldnβt even do that
says person who has admitted to nothing ever. π I see you have a comprehension problem then - βI left it out quite deliberatelyβ. Not sure how you think it magically appeared in the same screenshot π
Iβm not trying to further explain why youβre wrong when
you canβt, because Iβm not π
you are so stubborn that you canβt admit that I was right
says person who is too stubborn to admit that I was right aboutβ¦
- βMultiplicationβ
- the first calculator not evaluating left to right
- everything else Iβve provided textbook screenshots of
and also hasnβt been right about anything yet π
I said that the word βmultiplicationβ didnβt appear in a screenshot
No you didnβt. You said you were convinced there was βno such explicit referenceβ, and said nothing about the screenshot. Shouldβve read the textbook, like I kept telling you π

Thanks for demonstrating it even better than you had before!
What youβve demonstrated isβ¦
- not reading the textbook
- thus making up stuff as a result of not having found out you were wrong, per the textbook
- having poor comprehension skills
- refuses to do anything asked, on the pretence of made-up excuses after the fact
- wonβt admit to being wrong about anything
- changes what you claim to have said, to avoid admitting being wrong, even though itβs easy enough to scroll back and find that wasnβt what you said at all. π See screenshot π















says person proving they didnβt read it. Who woulda thought you might refuse to read something that would prove you wrong. π
says person revealing they donβt know what deflection means either π
I can answer if you go ahead and book some online tutoring with me to cover the history behind the comment.
Itβs not my job to educate you dude, unless you book some online tutoring with me, in which case it is my job. I gave you a book which answers it, for free, in extreme detail, and you lied about what it even contains, cos you never even looked at it, simple.