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submitted 11 months ago by Toes@ani.social to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that there's no "external" parentheses to really tell us which is right: (8 / 2) * 4 or 8 / (2 * 4)

The amount of comments here shows how much debate this "simple" thing generates

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

The problem is that there’s no “external” parentheses to really tell us which is right: (8 / 2) * 4 or 8 / (2 * 4)

The Distributive Law tells us it's the latter.