• TheKingBee@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    it’s mean in that they intentionally wrote it to trip people up so we’d have this very conversion…

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      2 days ago

      But how do you know they did that? Becuase it’s perfectly legit the way it’s written.

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        2 days ago

        Because this it’s trivial to write it in a way that won’t cause this confusion and yet every 3 months or so someone posts another one of these gotcha no context given equations and we as the internet have this same discussion again and again. It’s bait…

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          1 day ago

          Well, it’s causing YOU confusion yes. But to anyone who remembers the order of operation it’s not confusing at all.