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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I agree with your core message, that the issue is caused by bad notation. However I don't really see why you consider implicit multiplication to be the sole reason. In my mind, a/bc is equally as ambiguous as a/b*c. The symbols are not important.

You don't even consider this in your article, instead you seem to take the position that the operations are resolved from left to right. This idea probably comes from programming languages, as they commonly use this convention, but I haven't seen this defined in mathematics anywhere. I'm open to being wrong here, so if you can show me such a definition from an authoritative source (maybe ISO) I'd be thankful.

As it stands, you basically claim "the original notation is ambiguous, but with explicit × the answer is obviously nine, because my two calculators agree", even though you just discounted calculator proofs. By the way, both calculators explicitly define this left-to-right order in their documentation.

The ISO section 7.1.3 you quoted is very reasonable and succinct, and contradicts your claim that explicit multiplication sign removes ambiguity. There would be no need for this section if a left-to-right rule existed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Register to vote. Americans have to register or they cannot vote.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It is, Locutus was a commander in the battle at Wolf 359.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Wolf_359

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hashicorp recently switched Terraform's license from open source to a business license. Community forked it in a month. Source: opentofu.org

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When you get away from light pollution you can see a lot more stars and a bright line called milky way. We are part of the milky way and you can see the rest of it.

It looks [https://hr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datoteka:Milky_Way_Night_Sky_Black_Rock_Desert_Nevada.jpg](like this).