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2026-07-27 14:00 UTC

@FishFace@ioc.exchange I arrived from his very interesting comments on a Github issue where he seemed to insist that all calculators, mathematicians, and engineers should defer to his superior authority as a "High School Maths teacher": https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/92849#issuecomment-1741825708 He repeatedly shared his Mastodon thread as supposedly sourced evidence. From what I gather, he fundamentally misunderstands what brackets even are. He believes that brackets *are* the distributive property, so, in his head, BEMDAS is really DEMDAS.

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@FishFace@ioc.exchange 2026-07-27 14:14

@dgrilawidbanana@mastodon.social I don't think he believes there is any distribution in 2 - (3 + 1). However, he does think there is distribution involved in 2(a). In that thread he displays all his typical traits: dedication to the idea that there's only one way to do things, compulsive dragging of the conversation to his favourite topics, and obnoxious replies to people trying to deal with him patiently. He's not so dumb that he gets stuff wrong in a way that's super easy to disprove: this favourite topic is him saying something is unambiguous, and that thing *is* the way it's generally taught in school, so he is able to dismiss experts (who aren't teachers) and software and the small number of school resources (Lennes' textbook) as "wrong".

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