>
>and that that's precisely why brackets should be used in that
>expression.

No, you didn't adopt an actual stance until other people
used their calculators. I wish I had actually read the
post first, and then I wouldn't have bothered, because you
embarrassed yourself.

You didn't choose an answer until AFTER.


>The problem is that you took this "doesn't have a wrong
>answer" problem, and said it has only one right answer. Then
>when you tried to claim there was only one correct way to
>break the real ambiguity (that 2(x) is the same as 2*x), it
>became clear that by your own rules, the answer you gave was
>not the right one.


That's not true. This "implied operator" excuse is not
even a mathematical explanation.


You either use consistent rules or you don't.


My interpretation is consistent, yours is non-existent.


Plus, your way "using the computer" comes up with 288
whether you use the 2( or 2*( notation, so the computer
is wildly pathetically wrong on the basis of a non-mathematical
difference in notation.



>Of course your rules are consistent, they're also remarkably
>simple: what you initially said is deemed right, and you will
>hedge any way you possibly can to make it fit. First the
>order of operations was clear, and it unambiguously meant the
>answer was 2. Then, when we pointed out that wasn't true,
>order of operations was just a children's toy, and you don't
>need it. Then, when we asked why you're willing to disagree
>with it, the expressions had feelings, and you had to
>interpret them according to some kind of gut instinct. Then,
>when nobody went for that, you ended up on some bizarre idea
>(that I doubt anybody in here has heard of) that there are two
>different division symbols, and they have different
>significance for order of operations. I've probably missed a
>few steps, but this seems to be the general outline of your
>long, meandering pathway to refusing that you fucked up in one
>of your very first posts. At any rate, you've certainly
>embarrassed yourself enough that there's no need for anyone to
>push you any further.


Your rambling here, probably because you're upset that you
got exposed as a flip-flopper.


You're a fucking joke. LOL. You're so insecure, you won't
even come up with an answer on your own.


pathetic.




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