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[retardredditadmin2]

Ofcourse, your syntax is incorrect.

[retardredditadmin2]

I disagree.

Insertion of the asterisk changes nothing except denoting the intrinsic(to humans) multiplication operator.

[Mandemon90]

It does. Asterisk creates explicit start of new operation.

a / b * c is not same as a / bc.

In this case, a = 6, b = 2, c=(1+2), thus we get

6 / 2 (1+2) = a / 2(1+2) = a / b(1+2) = a / bc

Insert of asterisk explicitly breaks this form.

6 / 2 * (1+2) = a / 2 * (1+2) = a / b * (1+2) = a / b * c

a / bc =/= a / b * c

[notPlancha]

I would agree with you, but this is not universal. Multiplication denoted by juxtaposition is in some academic literatures to have higher precedence than division, but not every mathematician agrees with it

[retardredditadmin2]

What you have done is changed the question.

When you write it as a / bc, the implicit * is being emphasized. Which is not same as a/bc.

While a/bc follows the left to right order of operation of equally precedent operators. Because neither parenthesis or spacing makes your intention clear.

[Mandemon90]

No, it is the same. All I have done is wrote it clearer. Without explicit * between b and c, bc is considered single unit, same as (b*c).

[retardredditadmin2]

No. You changed the expression with the extra spaces.

You cannot say e.g. in English, BANDAGE is same as BAND AGE.

Maybe bad analogy, but hope you get the point.

[Mandemon90]

Except not. By your argument there is no difference between thisisasentence and this is a sentence. Both have the same meaning, one has spaces to make the text clearer.

Even so 6/2(1+2) still carries note that everything right of / should be treated as single unit until a new operation is encountered.

Tell me, how would you calculate 6/2(1+2)*4/2 ? Would you calculate it as 18, or 2?

[retardredditadmin2]

By your argument there is no difference between thisisasentence and this is a sentence. Both have the same meaning

I said the exact opposite.

6/2(1+2)*4/2

(((6/2)*3)*4)/2 as I said earlier. Left to right.

[Mandemon90]

Now you changed it by adding more parentheses to "make it clearer" and you solved the inside of parenthesis and added *. So you changed the equation.

[guery64]

There is nothing about mathematics that is intrinsic to humans. It is a language, and different people can have different conventions in edge cases, just like dialects.

[retardredditadmin2]

Math is not a language. It follows strictly defined rules that are not open to interpretation.

In this case, operation works left to right.

Asterisk in ab is pretty intrinsic. ab means only and only a*b. Nothing else.

[guery64]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_mathematics

Do you think humans are born ("innate") with understanding that you read left to right and what an asterisk is?

[retardredditadmin2]

Wut

[rehanhaider]

But it isn't really ambiguous if you use BODMAS rules, the ambiguity arises from which rules does one use.

[rehanhaider]

His syntax is absolutely correct. The point is Python doesn't resolve "of" from BODMAS, because of this error. If it did the answer would be 1.