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  • They print it out when someone places an order! 😂

    Welcome to the 21st century. We have this thing called the internet so people can share information without killing trees. It’s the resource material for a college course. That’s like the definition of a text book without costing the students a month’s rent.

    random people.

    One is a PhD teaching a college course on the subject, the other is Wolfram. Neither of those are “random people” and their credentials beat “claims to be a high school math teacher but had trouble counting to 2” pretty soundly.

    I already pointed out to you that they DON’T teach order of operations at University. It’s taught in high school. Dude on page you referred to was teaching Set theory, not order of operations.

    This portion of the discussion wasn’t about order of operations, it was about the number of inputs an operator (+, and - in this case) has. Try to keep up.

    Don’t know who you’re referring to. I’m a high school Maths teacher, hence the dozens of textbooks on the topic.

    Dear God if that’s true I feel sorry for your students and embarrassed for whatever school is paying you. But this is the internet and with any luck that’s a flat out lie. At least your repeated use of the plural maths means you’re not anywhere near my kids. Also, has the line “I’m a high school math teacher” ever impressed anyone?

    And yet the textbook says nothing of the kind. If I had 2+3, which is really +2+3…

    Oh, I see the problem. We’re back to reading comprehension. That section you highlighted specifically refers to when those symbols are being used as a “sign of the quality” of the number it’s referring to, not when it’s being used to indicate an operation like addition or subtraction. Hopefully that clears it up. This is ignoring the fact that a random screen shot could be anything. For all I know you wrote that yourself.

    do I, according to you, have to write 0+2+0+3

    No. You also don’t need to write +2+3 because the first “+” isn’t an operator. It’s, as your own picture says, a sign of the quality of 2.

    Now you’re getting it. Multiply and divide take 2 inputs, add and subtract take 1.

    I would love to know how you get to a sum or difference with only one input. Here, I’ll try to spell it out using your own example so that even you can understand.

    The inputs to 2 + 3 = 5 are 2 and 3. Let’s count them together. 2 is the first, and 3 is the second. 1, 2. Two inputs for addition. Did you get it this time? Was that too fast? You can go back and read it again if you need to

    Actually none of those are operators. The first 2 are grouping symbols

    Fine, operation then. The fact that you think “!” is the same thing as brackets doesn’t do anything to help your bona fides though. And I don’t have the energy to write up a word doc and screen shot it since that’s apparently what it takes for you to consider something valid.

    Maybe you’re just being weirdly pedantic about operator vs operation. Which would be a strange hill to die on since the original topic was operations.

    You very nearly got it that time though! 😂

    If by “it” you mean through your thick skull, then you’re more optimistic than I am. Keep laughing though, you just look dumber every time.

    Again, it’s not me who’s wrong.

    Again, according to literally everyone, it is. I could keep providing sources, but I still don’t have the time to screen shot some random crap with no supporting evidence. And as much as I enjoy dunking on dipshits, I’ve got other things to do.





  • Actually, it is. Written by a PhD and used in a college course. It just happens to be distributed for free because Canada is cool like that.

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    May want to work on your own reading comprehension.

    It’s not me who doesn’t understand the difference.

    The facts disagree.

    You can keep saying defined all you want, it doesn’t change the underlying issue that it’s defined by man. In the absence of all your books (which you clearly don’t understand anyway based on our discussion of unary vs binary) order of operations only exists because we all agree to it.