Jen GentlemanAs a former math major, honestly my calculator history is probably way more embarrassing to me than my browser history
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β @JenMsft Sure 7 Γ 7 is 49... But what if it's not?! π±
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But not as embarrassing as Microsoft calculators all getting basic order of operations wrong in different ways... https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111164851485070719
But not as embarrassing as Microsoft calculators all getting basic order of operations wrong in different ways... https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111164851485070719
π‘πππΊππππΊπ π°ππππ± (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 video 1/10 This week for #MathsMonday I'm going to talk about #calculators, in particular the current topic of #Mathematics order of operations (which I am nearly finished with now), and e-calculators (I'm looking at you #Developers #Programmers). It's important to know where brackets go in #Maths expressions, and after last week's topic I ran a follow-up poll https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111145907574869556 to see how many people could remember the #Math FOIL acronym from High School, because I sensed a deeper issue...
Fish Face@JenMsft SmartmanApps thinks MS Calc in basic mode emulating classic four-function calculators is a bug because he denies the existence of those calculators. Actually... maybe you have official info on that!
He also thinks conventions on order of operations have somehow been mathematically proven, and so every deviation from them is fatally flawed.
But on topic, I always say: "my degree was in mathematics, not arithmetic!"
@FishFace @JenMsft
"emulating classic four-function calculators" - no it doesn't
"he denies the existence of those calculators" - nope, I have one! A fact you, a Gaslighter, keeps denying π
"maybe you have official info on that!" - says Gaslighter who can't find any Maths textbooks that agree with them, and so is subtly trying to get a MS employee to provide any evidence that they have! π
@FishFace @JenMsft
"He also thinks conventions on order of operations have somehow been mathematically proven" - says Gaslighter pretending the proofs don't exist, even though they're scattered all over the place - "no, they don't exist - NO DON'T GO LOOKING FOR THEM, just believe me that they don't exist, ok??!". π https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/112155731866976955
"I always say: "my degree was in mathematics, not arithmetic!"" - you've never said that to me, so thanks for the handy screenshot going forward! π
π‘πππΊππππΊπ π°ππππ± (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image 1/6 This week for #MathsMonday I'm going do - again - a #mathematics order of operations proof, but the simple version. π Last time there were people who were claiming that + and - "can be a binary operator", and I was actually addressing that, but in the process proved that #Maths binary operators have to be solved before #Math unary operators, thus proving the order of operations rules, but this time an arithmetic approach, based on the operator definitions...