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submitted 9 months ago by [M] to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It became a meme a few years ago, people would post problems like this and argue about whose was right, as if there were no objective truth. It hurt to watch.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Arguably, there is no objective truth, since the symbols and rules of mathematics are assigned arbitrarily, and are basically a social contract, just like language!

    ...Wait, that means there's no objective meaning of "objective", crap

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Well yeah take enough shrooms and everything is suddenly exposed as the artificial construct that it is. But we don't have time to wake up and reinvent language every morning ;)

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago

    Arguably, there is no objective truth

    Yes there is, just look in Maths textbooks

    since the symbols and rules of mathematics are assigned arbitrarily

    The signs are, the rules aren't.

    are basically a social contract, just like language!

    Nope and nope. It's a tool for calculating things, nothing like a language at all.

    no objective meaning of “objective”

    There is, in a dictionary, just like the rules of Maths are in Maths textbooks

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    ya this one is super unambiguously PEMDAS, the one that has more of an argument is the one with the division of whether a/b(c) is a / (b * c) or (a / b) * c

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    ya this one is super unambiguously PEMDAS

    Spoiler alert: they all are

    the one that has more of an argument is the one with the division of whether a/b(c) is a / (b * c) or (a / b) * c

    No it doesn't, The Distributive Law, a(b+c)=(ab+ac), thus a/b(c)=a/(bxc).

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