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[–] kpw@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Off topic, but the rules of math are not set in stone. We didn't start with ZFC, some people reject the C entirely, then there is intuitionistic logic which I used to laugh at until I learned about proof assistants and type theory. And then there are people who claim we should treat the natural numbers as a finite set, because things we can't compute don't matter anyways.

On topic: Parsing notation is not a math problem and if your notation is ambiguous or unclear to your audience try to fix it.

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

the rules of math are not set in stone

The rules around order of operations are!

if your notation is ambiguous or unclear to your audience try to fix it

Nothing ambiguous in this expression.