← Back to context Comment by pitchlatte 1 day ago what aspect of school level “mathematical notation” is so bad as to be brain damage inducing? 7 comments pitchlatte Reply cultofmetatron 19 hours ago probably the arbitrariness of it. PEMDAS is more or less burned into my brain at this point but its basically the qwerty of notations. pitchlatte 19 hours ago that’s not even notation though, that’s a rubric for the order of operations. lioeters 19 hours ago The need to remember operator precedence is a consequence of the infix notation syntax. 4 replies →
cultofmetatron 19 hours ago probably the arbitrariness of it. PEMDAS is more or less burned into my brain at this point but its basically the qwerty of notations. pitchlatte 19 hours ago that’s not even notation though, that’s a rubric for the order of operations. lioeters 19 hours ago The need to remember operator precedence is a consequence of the infix notation syntax. 4 replies →
pitchlatte 19 hours ago that’s not even notation though, that’s a rubric for the order of operations. lioeters 19 hours ago The need to remember operator precedence is a consequence of the infix notation syntax. 4 replies →
lioeters 19 hours ago The need to remember operator precedence is a consequence of the infix notation syntax. 4 replies →
probably the arbitrariness of it. PEMDAS is more or less burned into my brain at this point but its basically the qwerty of notations.
that’s not even notation though, that’s a rubric for the order of operations.
The need to remember operator precedence is a consequence of the infix notation syntax.
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