True. Bugs and Daffy would be Merry and Pippin.

‘We’ll give you money to access your free website.’

‘… Okay.’

Anyone with lingering concerns should ask themselves how long they figure before the bubble pops and this becomes moot.

Singularity Sky is not the torment nexus I expected.

Can we not spam neutrons at hydrogen?

There’s a lot of hydrogen.

There’s no sense in which it does refer to the result you mean.

“a X b is written ab.” Modern Algebra: Structure And Method, page 36. It’s only a different way of writing the exact same thing.

Go ahead and try it out and let me know how you go.

Every textbook ever written disagrees with how you think brackets work, and mathematics has not collapsed in on itself. We’ve seen your Mastodon posts lamenting how ‘university people’ all disagree with what you lie to teenagers about. All of them! Weird, right? What a bizarre coincidence. I’m not sure what would look different if you were just plain full of shit.

I’ll take that as an admission that you’re wrong. Thanks for playing

So no answer for centuries of textbooks saying you’re full of shit.

Oh yeah, had a laugh at some RPN guy saying, ‘Hey you should check this thesis specifically about order of operations.’

This dipshit: “I already know what it’ll be - a University person who’s forgotten about Terms and The Distributive Law - they’re ALL like that.”

All of them! Wow! What a coincidence!

Isn’t it fucking crazy how everyone in the world is wrong about this, and math still works?

Because of one troll harassing people to insist 2(8)² is 256 and RPN has invisible brackets.

If you’ve written a(b)², then you mean (a×b)²

When shown a textbook that explicitly distinguishes 6(ab)³ meaning 6(ab)(ab)(ab) and (6ab)³ meaning (6ab)(6ab)(6ab), they accidentally got it right whilst sneering and inventing their sPeCiAl cAsE:

6a²b²=6(ab)²

They can’t even keep their horseshit straight when their inane pivots to division are directly addressed. Every response begins “nuh uh!” and backfills whatever needs to be true for you to be wrong and them to be smarterer.

They’re just full of shit.

Fuck where this started - you’re here now, saying 2(8)² is anything but 128. You’re that wrong about basic fucking algebra, whilst sneering at everyone else.

Here’s four textbooks across two centuries where a(b+c)^x is not (ac+bc)^x.

So when you sneer that rules and notation are different, you don’t know what those words mean.

Or you’re so devoid of internality that when someone says ‘imagine a different notation,’ you literally can’t.

There’s no pretending, It’s there in the textbooks

Show me any textbook that gets the answers you insist on. Show me one textbook where a(b+c)² squares a.

No you can’t!

Yes we could, because it’s a theoretical different notation. Mathematics itself does not break down, if you have to put add explicit brackets to 1/(ab).

Mathematics does break down when you insist a(b)² gets an a² term, for certain values of b. It’s why you’ve had to invent exceptions to your made-up bullshit, and pretend 2(8)² gets different answers when simplified from 2(5+3)² versus 2(8*1)².

‘If a+b equals b+a, why is 1/a+b different from 1/b+a?’

ab means a*b.

That’s why 1/ab=1/(a*b).

But we could just as easily say 1/ab = (1/a)*b, because that distinction is only convention.

None of which excuses your horseshit belief that a(b)² occasionally means (ab)².

says person who can’t back up anything they say about Terms with textbook references

“a X b is written ab and means a times b.”

Rub rub rub.

You sneered about 1/ab five minutes ago.

Troll.

That’s convention for notation, not a distinction between a*b and ab both being the product of a and b.

You have to slap 1/ in front of things and pretend that’s the subject, to avoid these textbooks telling you, ab means a*b. They are the same thing. They are one term.

You can’t keep your own horseshit straight.

This is you admitting there’s no difference. You insist they’re not the same. How?

Convention saying 1/a(b+c)² is 1/(a(b+c)²) instead of (1/a)(b+c)² doesn’t change how only (b+c) is squared.

By all means, humiliate yourself by splitting that hair.