• JackbyDev
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    1 month ago

    I cannot stress this enough. If you have a problem with that, contact the author or Berkeley, not me.

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              1 month ago

              You can stop humoring this broken robot. Especially when the context is ‘yeah I already said this textbook is wrong, but I am better than you because you need to read this textbook.’

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                1 month ago

                They seem to believe that and on the 8th day God made the one true objective order of operations that all humans use and agree on.

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                  1 month ago

                  Except for that time the definition of division changed 130 years ago. Which is not a rule! It’s notation, or syntax, or possibly sometimes a rule. Whichever one lets them sneer hardest.

                  I tried explaining RPN to them a year ago. They still insist there’s parentheses in it. Today they called it an “app.”

                  Dogmatic patience vampire is still trying to bait me into further wasted effort.

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                    1 month ago

                    Wowww. Insisting that they’re good at math. I distinctly remember learning that RPN doesn’t need parentheses in college.

                    reverse Polish calculators do not need expressions to be parenthesized

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

                    But, you know, anyone can edit Wikipedia. Someone probably put that there who hasn’t opened a math textbook.