10mo ago

Excuse me, Apple, why is the calculator wrong?

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1775754564727341345

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He does this shit for attention
- It's so sad regardless. Either he's really dumb or he's really dumb and also bad at jokes.
  
  He is really dumb
- Still trying to sell the brain damaged by antifa concrete claims.
  
  That was Andy Ngo, a completely different reactionary twitter user.
- Internet clout chasing like this always makes me feel bad for the person doing it. It's like I'm watching a medieval court jester.
  
  Counterpoint: fuck them, don't feel bad
- probably
- That's worse then not remembering the order of operations

Haven't you heard? PEMDAS is the latest disruption being pushed by the woke agenda.
- You joke but maybe this amorphous reactionary movement is just anti-enlightenment, ultimately
  
  Reactionaries fucking hate math education and are always freaking out that they dont understand their kid's homework.
  
  Genuinely I think they are. Their weird pseudo-anti-capitalism actually just strikes me as anti-modernism. The bourgeois are too woke for them they want to go back the feudal production run by an aristocracy.
- PEMDAS
  Oh yeah? Well if PEMDAS isn't woke then why are pronouns put in PARENTHESES, the number of illegal immigrants is always EXPONENTIALLY increasing, the number of genders keeps MULTIPLYING, traditional family units are DIVIDED, they're ADDING homosexual ideology to schools whole SUBTRACTING God?!
  
  put down the lathe of heaven right now... im gonna see this exact comment in a Facebook screenshot at some point this year.
- I kind of hate PEMDAS because multiplication and division are the same thing (division is multiplication by the reciprocal) and addition and subtraction are the same thing (subtraction is addition of the negation). moreover, multiplication and addition are commutative with themselves. so it should really be PEMA. lastly, if it's fucking ambiguous in any way, don't write it that way. just use parentheses. the notation that puts divisors in the denominator completely disambiguates everything.
  just learn what associativity, commutativity, and the distribution law are in the first place and you'll understand why something like PEMDAS exists. it's a notational trick to make it clear where those laws can be applied. when you leave the realm of numbers, some or all of these laws will stop applying and you need to still learn how to calculate the answer. matrices don't have commutative multiplication and if it won't associate, stop and find a different way to solve a different way to solve your problem because nope nope nope nope (fucking programmers breaking associativity in binary operations because "math is hard" - no bitch, what's hard is trying to work out what the hell your operation does).
  in summary, PEMDAS is liberalism and fuck javascript.
  
  We were taught PEMDAS as parentheses, exponentiation, multiplication OR division, addition OR subtraction. I don't know if it was changed at some point but I don't know anyone who was taught that multiplication comes before divison
  
  After learning BQN, I have a hard time remembering the traditional order of operation
  
  I gotta do more math homework..

My man Ian doing his best to dispell the stereotype that all Asian people are good at math.
- He's acktszchyually trying to virtue-signal his whiteness in this post
  
  Guys I'm just like you. I can't do math and hate having flavor in my food too.

This is literally a boomer Facebook meme. Someone would post it and they would all do the math in diffrent ways and get diffrent wrong answers because they have been out of school long enough to forget it
- At least those ones spark a mildly interesting conversation about implicit multiplication and why we have the order of operations. Ian's version is just silly and rather sad
- Assuming they ever learned it in the first place, of course.
  
  We all learned it. We have all forgotten plenty of thr stuff we haven't kept up practicing. It is their unwillingness to accept that they could be wrong and lead posion lack of creative thinking that is the mind killer here

Ian Miles Wrong 😔

This is a setup for some sort of "liberal media can't even tell I'm joking and that's why you should only trust articles written by me" sort of nonsense
- I honestly hope it's that, legitimately. The alternative is too depressing

Ian Miles See-me-after-class

pemdas balls lmao gottem

Mis-order of Operations

I mean this has to be a troll right? I know he's a dipshit but everyone can make a good post periodically especially if you post this much

PEMDAS YOU STUPID FUCK

The Apple calculator sucks because it has fucking ads. Nothing worse than doing a quick calculation and having to wait 15 seconds for some mobile game ad to finish.
- Your phone has malware
  
  every time you calculate a tip it phones home to a server in northern VA
- You’re cooked, go factory reset your phone
  
  It’s on the iPads that the ads appear. My phone doesn’t have that problem. I just chalked it up to it being older and rarely updated.
- This is definitely not true lmao
- Wait, really? People pay that much for a phone to watch ads on a calculator app?
  
  No. The calculator on iphones doesn't have ads.
  
  No. This comment isn’t factual.

There is no way this is real.

order of operations isn't left to right. due to woke.

Apple Calculators do suck, though. They just round weird on decimals, though.

Imagine being aware of LIFO OVS notation, but not being aware of PEMDAS /s

My phone calculator PEDMAS'd me in a weird way where I added two things together, hit equal, got the result and then divided it by two and it went back and redid my whole equation and fave me the wrong answer. I had to remember my sum, hit clear, re-enter and the divide and that was dumb. If I hit equal then that sum.shoild be Carter Blanche to divide withoutneorying about order of operations cause I accounted for that already and inputted it to work around that.

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