No mathematician would write an ambiguous equation like that.
People who argued over these are displaying an incorrect memory of a math education that is simply not a good look.
Division and multiplication have the same precedence, equations are evaluated left to right, so equation is divide then multiple. Division and subtraction are syntactic sugar for multiplication and addition.
These are fun little experiments showing how social media makes people more stupider and how proud the ignorant behave amongst themselves.
Division and subtraction are syntactic sugar for multiplication and addition.
Can you tell me a bit more about how you mean this? I searched a bit but only basic primary school level resources about the relationship between addition and subtraction came up.
Do you mean like subtraction is just adding a negative number, and division is just multiplication by the inverse of a number? In that case I don’t really see how it simplifies things much because negatives and inverses still need as much definition.
Or are you talking about bit-wise operations like a computer would use to do these things?
No mathematician would write an ambiguous equation like that.
People who argued over these are displaying an incorrect memory of a math education that is simply not a good look.
Division and multiplication have the same precedence, equations are evaluated left to right, so equation is divide then multiple. Division and subtraction are syntactic sugar for multiplication and addition.
These are fun little experiments showing how social media makes people more stupider and how proud the ignorant behave amongst themselves.
Can you tell me a bit more about how you mean this? I searched a bit but only basic primary school level resources about the relationship between addition and subtraction came up.
Do you mean like subtraction is just adding a negative number, and division is just multiplication by the inverse of a number? In that case I don’t really see how it simplifies things much because negatives and inverses still need as much definition. Or are you talking about bit-wise operations like a computer would use to do these things?
But hard to write this with the limitations of text but essentially it can be written as multiplication of fractions.
2 ÷ 2 ÷ 2 ÷ 2
2 x ½ x ½ x ½
Personally, I think the second form is easier to visualize and reason about, it can also can be simplified to use an exponent.