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I think I’m gonna trust someone from Harvard over your as-seen-on-TV looking ass account, but thanks for the entertainment you’ve provided by trying to argue with some of the actual mathematicians in here

https://youtu.be/qd2hX721Wjg

I still remember staring into that giant ball of plasma and thinking it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen in a video game.

It’s an absolute tragedy we never got a half-life 3.

And I bet the characters they’re playing are too.

[…] the question is ambiguous. There is no right or wrong if there are different conflicting rules. The only ones who claim that there is one rule are the ones which are wrong!

https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/pedagogy/ambiguity/index.html

As youngsters, math students are drilled in a particular
convention for the “order of operations,” which dictates the order thus:
parentheses, exponents, multiplication and division (to be treated
on equal footing, with ties broken by working from left to right), and
addition and subtraction (likewise of equal priority, with ties similarly
broken). Strict adherence to this elementary PEMDAS convention, I argued,
leads to only one answer: 16.

Nonetheless, many readers (including my editor), equally adherent to what
they regarded as the standard order of operations, strenuously insisted
the right answer was 1. What was going on? After reading through the
many comments on the article, I realized most of these respondents were
using a different (and more sophisticated) convention than the elementary
PEMDAS convention I had described in the article.

In this more sophisticated convention, which is often used in
algebra, implicit multiplication is given higher priority than explicit
multiplication or explicit division, in which those operations are written
explicitly with symbols like x * / or ÷. Under this more sophisticated
convention, the implicit multiplication in 2(2 + 2) is given higher
priority than the explicit division in 8÷2(2 + 2). In other words,
2(2+2) should be evaluated first. Doing so yields 8÷2(2 + 2) = 8÷8 = 1.
By the same rule, many commenters argued that the expression 8 ÷ 2(4)
was not synonymous with 8÷2x4, because the parentheses demanded immediate
resolution, thus giving 8÷8 = 1 again.

This convention is very reasonable, and I agree that the answer is 1
if we adhere to it. But it is not universally adopted.

Good rambling, would read again, 8/10

Pretty sure rubbing alcohol isn’t dangerous to the data layer, I think it just damaged the printed label

Left guy has Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy energy

I wish I knew it for a more legitimate reason, but ROSE Online burned ‘bourgeois’ into my brain permanently

Gotta get that sweet 180% time per time

Sour ice

OnlyFans; they don’t actually exist and it’s all a plot so Big Gay can abscond with your fashionable ascots.

The bi vibes are strong with this one

BoatMobile Works of course

Installation Abjuration

They’re incrementing it every day; what’s 29+5?

They presumably wanted to write World War II with Roman numerals, but needed to use uppercase i’s in this particular font

There’s little difference from their perspective.

Boofing them is even more dangerous than drinking them!! /j