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  • fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.detoMemes@lemmy.ml6÷2(1+2)
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    11 months ago

    Entering symbols one by one into a calculator is a fundamentally different process from writing them in a sentence.

    Citation needed.

    No but seriously, why do you think it necessarily needs to be different? There are calculators that use actual fraction notation and all that



  • fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.detoMemes@lemmy.ml6÷2(1+2)
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    11 months ago

    Thanks for putting my thoughts into words, that’s exactly why I hate math. It was supposed to be the logical one, but since it only needs to be parsed by humans it failed at even that. It’s just conventions upon conventions to the point where it’s notably different from one teacher/professor to the next.

    I guess you can tell why I went into comp-sci (and also why I’m struggling there too)