It became a meme a few years ago, people would post problems like this and argue about whose was right, as if there were no objective truth. It hurt to watch.
Arguably, there is no objective truth, since the symbols and rules of mathematics are assigned arbitrarily, and are basically a social contract, just like language!
…Wait, that means there’s no objective meaning of “objective”, crap
Well yeah take enough shrooms and everything is suddenly exposed as the artificial construct that it is. But we don’t have time to wake up and reinvent language every morning ;)
ya this one is super unambiguously PEMDAS, the one that has more of an argument is the one with the division of whether a/b(c) is a / (b * c) or (a / b) * c
It became a meme a few years ago, people would post problems like this and argue about whose was right, as if there were no objective truth. It hurt to watch.
Arguably, there is no objective truth, since the symbols and rules of mathematics are assigned arbitrarily, and are basically a social contract, just like language!
…Wait, that means there’s no objective meaning of “objective”, crap
Yes there is, just look in Maths textbooks
The signs are, the rules aren’t.
Nope and nope. It’s a tool for calculating things, nothing like a language at all.
There is, in a dictionary, just like the rules of Maths are in Maths textbooks
Well yeah take enough shrooms and everything is suddenly exposed as the artificial construct that it is. But we don’t have time to wake up and reinvent language every morning ;)
ya this one is super unambiguously PEMDAS, the one that has more of an argument is the one with the division of whether
a/b(c)isa / (b * c)or(a / b) * cSpoiler alert: they all are
No it doesn’t, The Distributive Law, a(b+c)=(ab+ac), thus a/b©=a/(bxc).