A microblog post by @kareem_carr saying "as soon as i saw they were using asterisks for multiplication symbols, i knew we were in trouble", with an image from the "Office of the United States Trade Representative (Executive Office of the President)" showing the mathematical formula $\Delta \tau_i = \frac{x_i - m_i}{\varepsilon * \varphi * m_i}$. The formula show asterisks (*) instead of multiplication signs (×).
What’s worse is that epsilon and phi don’t need to be there at all. They have some underlying economy meaning, but they just cancel the variables out by conveniently setting them to 4 and 0.25.
And that they said epsilon < 0