2023-08-21 04:41 UTC
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and you may recall I talked about "there is no evidence" claims in my first #FactFriday post https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110869090048130445 and here we are with a "there is no convention" claims. ;-) So what they do is treat it like a more important form of multiplication, and so put it, not at Brackets, but just ahead of Multiplication... though this can STILL lead to wrong answers, because TDL and Terms - which they've lumped together - are quite different things...
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@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social 2023-08-21 04:42
3/7 I've even seen one say (of calculators) "sometimes it obeys (IM), sometimes it doesn't". That's because the calculator in question obeys Terms but NOT TDL, and it's behaviour is 100% consistent with that (but confusing to someone who has lumped them together as IM). They even went as far as claiming "PEMDAS is wrong", cos they were treating it like rules (whilst also #LoudlyNotUnderstandingThings like the actual rules TDL and Terms), and made up a new mnemonic, so let's look at mnemonics...