• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The parenthesis are pointless. Exponents go first, but multiplication doesn’t care about order, and there is only multiplication going on.

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      10 months ago

      The parentheses are for clarification and thus not pointless. Know your audience. 🙂👍

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          10 months ago

          That Z² is equal to ZZ.

          If we didn’t use parentheses in primary school, because “the math doesn’t need it”, then it would be quite unnecessarily hard on the students’ learning. Maybe it’s a joke someone made for a class?

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            10 months ago

            No, it is syntactically unnecessary.

            I understand your point, and agree when it comes to programming with things like scope, typing, semicolons, etc, etc… Many concepts are easier to learn when enforced through syntax.

            Though if someone gets cofused on the transitive nature of multiplication with a single simple equation … They aren’t learning math.