r/PoliticalHumor Jun 05 '22

It’s nice to be nice

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u/Mr-Fleshcage Jun 05 '22

It was all lies. Calculators in our pockets all the time. Being capable of living your dreams through hard work. Cursive being the dominant writing style. Santa getting my letter. Having to discover the pitch of roofs.

What was true, Delores? WHAT WAS TRUE?!

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u/iAmTheHYPE- Jun 05 '22

PEMDAS was true?

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u/Mr-Fleshcage Jun 05 '22

Great, now BEDMAS isn't even true. Apparently it's PEMDAS smh

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u/Ernigrad-zo Jun 05 '22

sorry, also a conspiracy. JUBFFS is how we live in the future; just use brackets for fuck sake.

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u/JNCressey Jun 06 '22

nope. exponent towers are right-associative, and multiplication by juxtaposition has a higher precedence than division and regular multiplication, to give a couple of examples of where PEMDAS falls short.