• ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    Math should be taught with postix or reverse Polish notation. It removes this ambiguity as the order of operations is left to right.

    • FishFace@piefed.social
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      15 hours ago

      But it’s not so great for polynomials and other more complicated expressions which you’re not just evaluating, but rather manipulating algebraically:

      3 y × 3 ^ 4 y × 2 ^ + -2 y × + 3 +