• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The parenthesis are pointless. Exponents go first, but multiplication doesn’t care about order, and there is only multiplication going on.

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      10 months ago

      The parentheses are for clarification and thus not pointless. Know your audience. 🙂👍

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          10 months ago

          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?