Multiplication/division*
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i would probably not pick 1 but some people were taught that 1 is what you do it has to do with the priority you treat the implicit multiplication
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Replying to @steveklabnik @myrrlyn
Huh. I didn't realize that folks were taught that multiplication from parens had different operator precedence. TIL
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Really the lesson here is "we shouldn't have ambiguous syntax in math" IMO. Why did folks decide implied multiplication was a good idea?
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remember, love is worth more than being right
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Replying to @steveklabnik @sgrif
common core orders the operations differently but both answers are valid according to their own reference frames
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Replying to @myrrlyn @steveklabnik
I thought common core was just about how to do math in your head. I didn't realize it ordered anything differently
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Replying to @sgrif @steveklabnik
(it doesn't, I was using the premise of the seed post to make an extremely weak joke about the relative orderings of love and being right)
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Oh sorry. Don't worry, having to explain it made it funnier
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