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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

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 a^2^ 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^.

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Yes we could

No you can't! 😂

it’s a theoretical different notation

In other words against the rules of Maths that we have, got it

does not break down, if you have to put add explicit brackets to 1/(ab)

But it does breakdown if you treat ab as axb 🙄

if you have to put add explicit brackets to 1/(ab)

We explicitly don't have to, because brackets not being needed around a single Term is another explicit rule of Maths, 🙄 being the way everything was written before we started using Brackets in Maths. We wrote things like aa/bb without brackets for many centuries. i.e. they were added on after we had already defined all these other rules centuries before

Mathematics does break down when you insist a(b)2 gets an a2 term

No it doesn't. If you meant ab², then you would just write ab². If you've written a(b)², then you mean (axb)²

for certain values of b

Got nothing to do with the values of b

It’s why you’ve had to invent exceptions to your made-up bullshit

says person still ignoring all these textbooks

pretend 2(8)2

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

when simplified from 2(5+3)2 versus 2(8*1)2

You know it's called The Distributive Property of Multiplication over additon, right? And that there's no such thing as The Distributive Property of Multiplication over Multiplication, right? You're just rehashing your old rubbish now

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev -1 points 3 months ago

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

says the actual person who doesn't know what they mean 😂

when someone says ‘imagine a different notation,’ you literally can’t

Yes, you literally can't go rewriting all the rules of Maths that we've had for centuries just because you randomly want to do something different now that we've decided to add Brackets to it 😂 Your whole argument is based on pretending that all the rules of Maths were all written at the same time 🤣🤣🤣

Show me any textbook that gets the answers you insist on

Pick any of them which show a(b+c)=(ab+ac) 🙄

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