Post #4372104
2026-08-04 08:58 UTC
@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social @ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz @solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk Nobody should write garbage like that.
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@FishFace@ioc.exchange 2026-08-04 10:12
@TimWardCam@c.im the context is a textbook for children recapping arithmetic. I think in that context it's fine. But after age 15? Then we have better ways to express the same thing. His central thesis (I refer to him in third person due to him having blocked me) is that there is no ambiguity in mathematics, including such expressions. He just ran a poll in which 16% of people interpreted such an expression "wrong"! So to him "not ambiguous" doesn't mean "people might interpret it in two different ways" it means "I deem one interpretation correct and all others incorrect".