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minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoThe parenthesis are pointless. Exponents go first, but multiplication doesn’t care about order, and there is only multiplication going on.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoThe parentheses are for clarification and thus not pointless. Know your audience. 🙂👍
minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoClarification of what? The joke doesn’t need them and neither does the math.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoThat Z² is equal to ZZ. If we didn’t use parentheses in primary school, because “the math doesn’t need it”, then it would be quite unnecessarily hard on the students’ learning. Maybe it’s a joke someone made for a class?
minus-squaresmileyhead@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoThey could be used to separate two letter symbol (Pi) from one letter symbol (Z, Z, a)
The parenthesis are pointless. Exponents go first, but multiplication doesn’t care about order, and there is only multiplication going on.
The parentheses are for clarification and thus not pointless. Know your audience. 🙂👍
Clarification of what? The joke doesn’t need them and neither does the math.
That Z² is equal to ZZ.
If we didn’t use parentheses in primary school, because “the math doesn’t need it”, then it would be quite unnecessarily hard on the students’ learning. Maybe it’s a joke someone made for a class?
They could be used to separate two letter symbol (Pi) from one letter symbol (Z, Z, a)