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What the heck are you all fighting about? It’s BODMAS.
I'd would be great if you find the time to read the post and let me know afterwards what you think. It actually looks trivial as a problem but the situation really isn't, that's why the article is so long.
I was being facetious. I will try to find the time to read the post, but I know already that the problem isn’t trivial. It involves, above all else, human comprehension, which is a very iffy thing, to say the least.
Oh sry. I'm one of those people who are to stupid to detect sarcasm in text comments, unless it's very obvious. Probably a combination of it actually being a hard problem and me not being a native speaker.
Because it actually is.
The article was really long because there were so many stawmen in it. Had you checked a Maths textbook or asked a Maths teacher it could've been really short, but you never did either.
So what does BODMAS sound like to the other side?
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They're arguing about whether Distribution is Multiplication or not. Spoiler alert: it isn't, it's Brackets.