Toes♀ to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 year agoGlitch in the matrixexternal-linkmessage-square577fedilinkarrow-up1422arrow-down10
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minus-squarederphurr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoNo. It’s ambiguous. In a math book or written by anyone that actually uses math, you don’t have a “%” You group stuff below the line, and you use parens and brackets to group things like (a + b) and (x)(y) so that it is not ambiguous. 2/xy would be almost always interpreted differently than 2/x(x+y) which is ambiguous and could mean (2/x)(x+y) or 2/[(x)(x+y)]
minus-squaredoctorcrimson@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYou continue to say it’s ambiguous, but the most commonly used convention on earth very clearly prioritizes parenthesis. It is not ambiguous.
No. It’s ambiguous. In a math book or written by anyone that actually uses math, you don’t have a “%”
You group stuff below the line, and you use parens and brackets to group things like (a + b) and (x)(y) so that it is not ambiguous.
2/xy would be almost always interpreted differently than 2/x(x+y) which is ambiguous and could mean (2/x)(x+y) or 2/[(x)(x+y)]
You continue to say it’s ambiguous, but the most commonly used convention on earth very clearly prioritizes parenthesis. It is not ambiguous.