• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Those math questions that rely on purposeful ambiguity in order to drive engagement are annoying as fuck. It’s like “congratulations, you just proved that in math (and questions in general) if you’re not clear with what you’re asking, people will get different answers”. What fantastic value! What a novel hypothesis! Now fucking knock it off. I’m tired of literally everyone screaming about how their way is right when it doesn’t fucking matter, the question was asked in a bullshit way in order to piss everyone off.

    Bonus, PEMDAS, BEMDAS, PE-MD-AS. It’s a goddamn terrible mnemonic that twists itself in knots to make the acronym work, rather than to make the order of operations clear. Screaming it doesn’t make your shit any clearer anyways.

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      11 months ago

      Join me in RPN land, where we sit by looking smug while people thought different systems of infix notation debate the right answer.

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      11 months ago

      If they weren’t ambiguous, then you wouldn’t see them getting popular. The difference of opinion drives engagement which means it’s more likely to show in your feed because that’s how most social media algorithms work.

      Things that everyone agrees on don’t get engagement, so they don’t bubble up to the top.