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Did you not notice the unit modifier in the my second phrase???

Let me spell it out for you.

3 (three) ’ (feet) ^2 (squared)

You’d have me repeating myself like a monkey, which is, NINE.

3 (three) sq (square) ft (feet) is THREE.

but I suspect you’ll disagree at at this point I’ll move on, my only sadness is there was a person out there who agreed with your original argument that they were the same.

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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tell me what “three plus four squared” is.

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- Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nope, forty-nine.
    
    See?
    
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    Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Okay,
    
    There’s this thing called the order of operations
    
    And seeing as how you don’t know about it, it makes sense that you won’t know the difference between square miles and miles squared.
    
    Please check out a junior high school math text book before bothering to argue on the Internet.
    
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