• FishFace@piefed.social
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    23 hours ago

    You’ve completely not understood that order of operations is an arbitrary convention. How did you decide to expand the definition of multiplication before evaluating the addition? Convention.

    You can’t write 2 + 2 ÷ 2 like this, so how are you gonna decide whether to decide to divide or add first?