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    The clouds could part, revealing an unmistakable divine presence, where a herald of angels trumpet, and the creator of the universe tells this guy he’s being a hypocritical crank, and he’d bicker until god himself said “Stuff this” and moved on.

        • Which you said changed 130 years ago

          The definition of Division changed more than 130 years ago. a+b/c+d originally meant (a+b)/(c+d), but that limited you to one division per expression, so they changed the definition to be a+b/c+d=a+(b/c)+d, which brought it into line with all the other operators - the underlying Maths never changed, just the way we write expressions did

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            Ohhh, so there is a difference between what’s in math(s) books and the underlying laws of reality. When it lets you scold people.

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                Probably the part where you said how we write expressions is different from the underlying maths.

                Because words mean things.

                • 💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@programming.dev
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                  Probably the part where you said how we write expressions is different from the underlying maths

                  Yep, the underlying Maths is the same everywhere, because the rules are universal, but different countries have different notations, it’s still the same Maths

                  Because words mean things

                  And you seem to be having trouble understanding the difference between “notation” and “rules”

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                    My guy, you’re all over this thread hassling people as if there’s only one valid notation. I warned folks about your cocksure confusion of notation and rules two weeks ago, and your oblivious ass did exactly that in response to my warning.

                    You’re so confused about notation versus rules that you think RPN must have parentheses, somewhere, somehow, because they’re in the One True Notation.

                    I don’t think you understand being wrong, as a concept. Your brain slides right off it and circles back to a sequence of words that lets you be smug.