ya this one is super unambiguously PEMDAS, the one that has more of an argument is the one with the division of whether a/bc is a / (b * c) or (a / b) * c
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BanMe@lemmy.world 19 hours agoIt became a meme a few years ago, people would post problems like this and argue about whose was right, as if there were no objective truth. It hurt to watch.
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
Arguably, there is no objective truth, since the symbols and rules of mathematics are assigned arbitrarily, and are basically a social contract, just like language!
…Wait, that means there’s no objective meaning of “objective”, crap
BanMe@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Well yeah take enough shrooms and everything is suddenly exposed as the artificial construct that it is. But we don’t have time to wake up and reinvent language every morning ;)