No, it’s just about the dumbest thing I’ve read today. So far.

Well then the data is accurate which one is it now?

Come on you know that has to be false. The stores know how much they ordered and how much of it they sold. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t even know how much to order next time.

The only way they wouldn’t know how much was actually stolen is, if stolen goods are a rounding error of what they throw out day to day. (In which case we have a much more significant problem of Corporate waste on our hands)

I refuse to accept x as a multiplication sign. Multiplication ist either • or maybe * but never x and certainly not ×, because that’s a cross product

Read TFA

Entering symbols one by one into a calculator is a fundamentally different process from writing them in a sentence.

Citation needed.

No but seriously, why do you think it necessarily needs to be different? There are calculators that use actual fraction notation and all that

No, the aswer clearly is 2x+4.

Thanks for putting my thoughts into words, that’s exactly why I hate math. It was supposed to be the logical one, but since it only needs to be parsed by humans it failed at even that. It’s just conventions upon conventions to the point where it’s notably different from one teacher/professor to the next.

I guess you can tell why I went into comp-sci (and also why I’m struggling there too)

I’d say engineers like to be exact, but they like being lazy even more

I don’t know a single language that lets you use a name starting with a number for anything off the top of my head

Please read the article, that’s exactly what it’s about. There is no right answer.

Yeah, but implicit multiplication without a sign is often treated with higher priority.

Nothing against the singularity that is a node_modules directory

If there are therapists for online sessions there are therapists for real sessions. Classic allocation problem.

Ever tried to buy a game on a console?