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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

A microblog post by @kareem_carr saying "as soon as i saw they were using asterisks for multiplication symbols, i knew we were in trouble", with an image from the "Office of the United States Trade Representative (Executive Office of the President)" showing the mathematical formula $\Delta \tau_i = \frac{x_i - m_i}{\varepsilon * \varphi * m_i}$. The formula show asterisks (*) instead of multiplication signs (×).

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

Asterisks are not commonly used in place of a multiplication sign when typesetting a mathematical formula

To mathematicians, it's like turning in an essay in college with wingdings as placeholders for words

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You gotta give them credit for actually writing it as a fraction instead of using the primary school division symbol ÷ lol

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