I think I learned powers take priority over the “-”
Yes, Exponents is the 2nd-highest precedence (after Brackets) - BEDMAS.
the whole issue can be avoided
...by following all the order of operations rules
Schools only started teaching that rule relatively recently
Recently? The order of operations rules have been taught for more than a century (we can see them in Lennes' letter).
The big stuff should happen first, then the more granular operations
The "big stuff" is stuff that is defined in terms of something else. i.e. exponents are shorthand for repeated multiplication... and multiplication is shorthand for repeated addition, hence they have to be done in that order or you get wrong answers.
Thanks for the correction, you are right
The point is the correction, not who made it. Almost every e-calculator is wrong, so people need to stop trusting them. They're no more accurate than GPT. Use a proper calculator.
write ambigous terms like this
It's not ambiguous
all the people in the comments who weren’t educated properly on what conventions are
Everyone was taught the rules of Maths - it's just a matter of who remembers them or not.
a(b) is a×b
a(b) is (a×b) - you can't remove brackets unless there is only 1 term left inside.
8/(2x4)=8/8=1
They were right but for the wrong reason
As are you. There is no such thing as implicit multiplication - the actual relevant rules are Terms and The Distributive Law.
explicitly ambiguous
#MathsIsNeverAmbiguous #DontForgetDistribution
Look, this is not the only case where semantics and syntax don’t always map
Syntax varies, semantics doesn't. e.g. in some places colon is used for division, in others an obelus, but regardless of which notation you use, the interpretation of division is immutable.
they use different semantics for a notation that for you seems to have clear meaning
They might use different notation, but the semantics is universal.
You need to accept that human communication isn’t as perfectly unambiguous as mathematics (writing math down using notation is a way of communicating)
Writing Maths notation is a way of using Maths, and has to be interpreted according to the rules of Maths - that's what they exist for!
Hi Maho! Good to see you here. I wasn't sure if you had joined here or not.
I did not create this post
No, I did (see previous point I wasn't sure if you were on here). :-) Although there is some overlap between here and Mastodon, there are some who are only getting their news here or there, so I made some posts here too. I made the actual original post in the Windows Development Community, and have had a few new subscribers as a result, so that's good. :-)
I have been experimenting with ActivityPub for my site (https://maho.dev/2024/02/a-guide-to-implement-activitypub-in-a-static-site-or-any-website/)
You might like to make your own, separate post about that. I didn't do one for it yet - needed to explore more what communities we have here that might suit it (e.g. I'm not sure if there's a ActivityPub Community). I just knew it didn't really fit into the Communities I was already subscribed to (though maybe this one?).
I decided to create this bot, to see if it would be something useful for the fediverse
That's a big thumbs up from me :-)
This has been resolved by updating to VS 17.8.7 or 17.9
You can write the MAUI UI in C#. No need to use XAML anywhere.
Creating MAUI UI's in C#