[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 6 months ago

Didn't the right one train the ninja turtles?

[-] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

Also not paying for LibreOffice, Linux and Gimp.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Because of the shadow maybe. But it's practically impossible to offset the human carbon footprint with trees.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not how it works. Your body can't detect a lack of oxygen but only build up of CO2. If you replace the air you breath with pure Helium, N2, CO, etc. you will just painlessly black out and die.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In the blog post there are even more. Texas Instruments, HP and Canon also have calculators, and some of them show 9 and some 1.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

👍 That was actually one of the reasons why I wrote this blog post. I wanted to compile a list of points that show as clear as humanity possible that there is no consensus here, even amongst experts.

That probably won't convince everybody but if that won't probably nothing will.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

You should read the part about WolframAlpha in the blog.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=6%2Fxy+where+x%3D2%2C+y%3D3

[-] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

It's actually "both". There are two conventions. One is a bit more popular in science and engineering and the other one in the general population. It's actually even more complicated than that (thus the long blog post) but the most correct answer would be to point out that the implicit multiplication after the division is ambiguous. So it's not really "solvable" in that form without context.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

True, and it's not only about learning math but that there is actually no consensus even amongst experts, about the priority of implicit multiplications (without explicit multiplication sign). In the blog post there are a lot of things that try to show why and how that's the case.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

It's probably not, and now?

[-] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

And those who understand that this joke works in any base.

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