this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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I guess if you wrote it out with a different annotation it would be
6
-‐--------‐--------------
2(1+2)
=
6
-‐--------‐--------------
2×3
=
6
--‐--------‐--------------
6
=1
I hate the stupid things though
Escape symbols?
oooh this looks very pretty on hexbear, thanks friend!
Yeah connect for lemmy didn't sort the out very well.
Lemmy* markdown is a fuckin mess. It's way better elsewhere. & <>
You're more patient than me to go to that trouble! 😂 But yeah, looks good. Just one technicality (and relates to how many people arrive at the wrong answer), the 2x3 should be in brackets. Yes if you had a proper fraction bar it wouldn't matter, but that's what's missing with inline writing, and is compensated for with brackets (and brackets can't be removed unless there's only 1 term inside). In your original comment, it does indeed look like 6/(2x3), but, to illustrate the issue with what you wrote, as soon as I quoted it, it now looks like (6/2)x3 in my comment.
Lemmy interprets some symbols as formatting commands, for example putting a # at the start of a line turns it into a header:
## header
You can tell it to not do that by putting a backslash before the symbol:
\# not a header
The backslash is called the escape symbol.
Cheers mate
I guess if you wrote it out with a different annotation it would be
6
--‐--------‐-------------- 2(1+2)
= 6 --‐--------‐-------------- 2×3
= 6 --‐--------‐-------------- 6
=1
I hate the stupid things though