(-) precedence

[Sukiari]

(12-23-2022 07:16 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  

(12-23-2022 05:11 AM)Sukiari Wrote:  They make them, the dead bodies are proof. By perpetuating this fun clever game real people will die. It’s infected schools, engineers think - before a number is a “unary negation operator” even though this is a sort of mental masturbation game for number theorists and isn’t part of natural philosophy.

We’re one short step from the number 3 expanding to anything you like as long as it can be reduced to 3. Is 3, 3? Or is it an implied (9-6)?

But the deaths are worth the snarky humor. I for one stopped flying already so my own personal risk is quite minimal.

I see it is possible to come up with insane conspiracy theories about absolutely anything.

Insane being the operative word here. Mr. Sukiari, I sincerely recommend seeing a shrink. You may think you are making an important contribution to this conversation here, but you really, really are not.

Euler and Newton would both have physically slapped a man for implying that a - before a number is a ‘unary negation operator.’ Slapped them at a bare minimum, perhaps ran them through. And it would have improved the species if they were run through.

I did a little research on the concept and it’s rooted in computer programming, it was welded onto the back of this shambling monstrosity called new math sometime in the 1990s. There is no mention of it at all before the 1960s and no mention of it outside the context of computer programming before the 1990s. It’s a mistake. But I guess CAS’s are too difficult to make without this concept so it was strapped onto mathematics as an afterthought. It can safely be ignored unless you’re flying, driving over bridges, or otherwise relying on engineers to keep you from dying. If you are, you should be deathly afraid.