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@knightlight4 @JangotheFox @Lyssa_Ishida @Jun_on_Fire "ask google" - ask Google about African countries that start with K and see how you go. 😂 "most people agree" - adults who've forgotten the rules isn't "most people". "has to be clarified more to 6/(2(1+2))" - no it doesn't. It already means that, per a(b+c)=(ab+ac)

@SmartmanApps @JangotheFox @Lyssa_Ishida @Jun_on_Fire and yet if you ask google its 9. and most people agree its 9. and if you want it to be 1 it has to be clarified more to 6/(2(1+2)) cuz it can go either way like in this case. adding the second set of () clarifies it so you muliply 2 x 3 first. otherwise it defaults 9 as answer

I would like to see them implement savage versions of the alliance raids from past expansions solely to see half the raid wipe to Construct 7 when it whips this equation out and the entire raid argues about proper order of operations

@knightlight4 @JangotheFox @Lyssa_Ishida @Jun_on_Fire Let me help you out with a whole bunch of textbook references - both old AND NEW 🤣 @SmartmanApps/110897908266416158" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/…

@knightlight4 @JangotheFox @Lyssa_Ishida @Jun_on_Fire Did you actually READ the letter he refers to? It states quite clearly "all multiplication first", thus 6/2x3=6/6=1. 🤣 Also that rule was never adopted anyway. We still have the same rules as 100 years ago. Maybe in future you should check references when they're given. 🤣

@knightlight4 @JangotheFox @Lyssa_Ishida @Jun_on_Fire "that is only if you're talking algebra" - no it isn't. "it would be 6/(2(1+2))" - which is EXACTLY the same as 6/2(1+2). a(b+c) is the standard form of a factorised term. Look up literally any Maths textbook chapter on Factorising - it's written the same way in ALL of them.

@SmartmanApps @JangotheFox @Lyssa_Ishida @Jun_on_Fire that is only if you're talking algebra and using notations like a/b/c/x/y etc. this is straight order of operations with a definitive outcome. because then it goes into do everything in perentheses first. now if you wanted it yoru way. it would be 6/(2(1+2))

@knightlight4 @JangotheFox @Lyssa_Ishida @Jun_on_Fire "the 2 doesnt magically go into the bracket" - no, it goes in via The Distributive Law - a(b+c)=(ab+ac) - that's precisely what the notation was invented for, to indicate a Factorised Term. ab+ac=a(b+c). 6/2(1+2)=6/(2+4)=6/6=1.

@SmartmanApps @JangotheFox @Lyssa_Ishida @Jun_on_Fire the 2 doesnt magically go into the bracket. so there is only one term in it, 3. so 2(1+2) = 2(3) and then you multiply outside and inside. so its 2 x 3. now add part before and its 6 / 2 x 3 and go in order. 6/2 =3 then 3 x 3 = 9

@reddie1907 @triquetra0 @Sakuraaa_XIV @Jun_on_Fire You think Maths textbooks are wrong?? 😂 BTW I teach this topic.

@SmartmanApps @triquetra0 @Sakuraaa_XIV @Jun_on_Fire how can you be so horribly wrong yet so confident? 😭

@Kryzalydd @FreestarXIV_kjk @Jun_on_Fire If you read it, it quite clearly states "a NUMBER or letter NEXT TO A BRACKET...". I see where the first 2 is, do you?

@SmartmanApps @FreestarXIV_kjk @Jun_on_Fire where can you see letters ?

@Ryth_deathless_ @ValleyHipparion @Jun_on_Fire Maths teachers (and students) are getting it wrong? 😂 See Modern Algebra : Structure and Method, Book 1 by Dolciani, Mary P; Berman, Simon L; Freilich, Julius, page 282, questions 15 and 16, answers on page 577. Available on the Internet Archive

@SmartmanApps @ValleyHipparion @Jun_on_Fire You are quoting the correct law only to get it wrong...

@JangotheFox @Lyssa_Ishida @Jun_on_Fire "the brackets disappear after adding up 1 and 2" - no they don't. "6/2*3" - no, it's 6/(2x3). You can't remove brackets unless there is only 1 term left inside. 2x3 is 2 terms. You just broke up the factorised Term and flipped the 3 out of the denominator into the numerator.

@SmartmanApps @Lyssa_Ishida @Jun_on_Fire Well technically the brackets disappear after adding up 1 and 2. So it is 6/2*3 = 9

Hey @doughendrie just letting you know I just sent a DM, in case you need to check your message requests to see it. Related to possible article if you're interested in writing it.

@alexwlchan "This numerical expression is ambiguous" - no, it isn't "There are two interpretations" - only 1 is correct (literally! 😂) "We need more information" - @SmartmanApps/110897908266416158" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/…

@Mirasifm @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire So you just proved yourself wrong then 😂😂😂

@SmartmanApps @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire hccs.edu/departments/di….

@Mirasifm @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire How do you divide by a fraction without it? I'll wait.

@SmartmanApps @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire Sorry that your "high school maths" doesn't actually teach that division signs are ambiguous and not taken seriously by anyone higher level. I guess it's too much for your high school brain to handle 😔

@Mirasifm @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire Got nothing to do with if it's plus minus multiply or divide - it's an operator, operators separate terms.

@SmartmanApps @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire okay, but that doesn't resolve if 2 or 6/2 is outside of it. Your entire argument is predicated on an assumption. That law has nothing to do with the issue presented, which is the ambiguity of a division sign. math.stackexchange.com/questions/2385…

@Mirasifm @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire "hasn't been written as a fraction to make it ambiguous" And yet it isn't ambiguous. "You're so close to realising the issue" I already know what the issue is - it's people who have forgotten their High School Maths rules. Bye now

@SmartmanApps @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire Correct - it hasn't been written as a fraction to make it ambiguous and cause debate. You're so close to realising the issue without actually noticing it.

@Mirasifm @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire

@SmartmanApps @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire "Distributive Law in Maths states that multiplying a group of large 2 or 3-digit numbers will create the same value as those numbers being partitioned, multiplied and added together." For the sake of students everywhere, remove yourself from teaching.

@Mirasifm @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire Yes, there is, and yet this HASN'T been written as a fraction.

@SmartmanApps @eorzeandog @Jun_on_Fire There's a reason the quadratic formula is written as a fraction.