▲ 710 ▼ I dunno (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone) submitted 9 months ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone [M] to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 756 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) You flipped the sign on the 3 and 1. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 9 months ago (2 children) I did not flip any signs, merely reversed the order in which the operations are written out. If you read the right side from right to left, it has the same meaning as the left side from left to right. Hell, the convention that the sign is on the left is also just a convention, as is the idea that the smallest digit is on the right (which should be a familiar issue to programmers, if you look up big endian vs little endian) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* If that's your idea of reversing the order, then you're not talking about the same thing as SpaceCadet@feddit.nl. They're talking about the order of operations and the associativity/commutativity property. You're talking about the order of the symbols. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev -2 points 8 months ago I did not flip any signs Yes you did! 😂 merely reversed the order in which the operations are written out No, merely reversing the order gives -3-2+1 - you changed the signs on the 1 and 3. If you read the right side from right to left, it Starts with -3, which you changed to +3 it has the same meaning as the left side from left to right when you don't change any of the signs it does 😂 Hell, the convention that the sign is on the left is also just a convention Nope, it's a rule of Maths, Left Associativity. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 9 months ago (2 children) I did not flip any signs, merely reversed the order in which the operations are written out. If you read the right side from right to left, it has the same meaning as the left side from left to right. Hell, the convention that the sign is on the left is also just a convention, as is the idea that the smallest digit is on the right (which should be a familiar issue to programmers, if you look up big endian vs little endian) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* If that's your idea of reversing the order, then you're not talking about the same thing as SpaceCadet@feddit.nl. They're talking about the order of operations and the associativity/commutativity property. You're talking about the order of the symbols. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev -2 points 8 months ago I did not flip any signs Yes you did! 😂 merely reversed the order in which the operations are written out No, merely reversing the order gives -3-2+1 - you changed the signs on the 1 and 3. If you read the right side from right to left, it Starts with -3, which you changed to +3 it has the same meaning as the left side from left to right when you don't change any of the signs it does 😂 Hell, the convention that the sign is on the left is also just a convention Nope, it's a rule of Maths, Left Associativity. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* If that's your idea of reversing the order, then you're not talking about the same thing as SpaceCadet@feddit.nl. They're talking about the order of operations and the associativity/commutativity property. You're talking about the order of the symbols. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev -2 points 8 months ago I did not flip any signs Yes you did! 😂 merely reversed the order in which the operations are written out No, merely reversing the order gives -3-2+1 - you changed the signs on the 1 and 3. If you read the right side from right to left, it Starts with -3, which you changed to +3 it has the same meaning as the left side from left to right when you don't change any of the signs it does 😂 Hell, the convention that the sign is on the left is also just a convention Nope, it's a rule of Maths, Left Associativity. permalink fedilink source parent
