

None of those really “feel like” the things they’re replacing. I don’t really even think that should be the goal. They occupy the same space, though, and the infographic would look stupid if it showed all the options in some category, so they just picked a popular proprietary/centralized one, and a popular federated alternative in the same category. In this case discord is a popular chat app, and the most popular federa chat app afaict is matrix.







THANK YOU. this is what I’ve been trying to tell you the entire fucking time. PEMDAS is not a law, its a convention.
but just in case you decide to go back on that, and since you seem to be obsessed with the idea that all notations adhere to PEMDAS - let me blow your mind:
here is the distributive law, written in the 3 notations we’ve been talking about:
prefix:
*a+bc = +*ab*acinfix:
a(b+c) = ab+acpostfix:
abc+* = ab*ac*+(not using juxtaposition multiplication for prefix/postfix for clarity)
so where does PEDMAS get involved in prefix or postfix notations?
regarding your textbook being the first google result… are you referring to the textbook from 1913? for someone talking about the importance of textbooks, thats a really strange choice. I can’t find another with the same name and author of either Coll or Rich.
and hilariously, if you look at that text book, on page 90 it says the following: