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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • Yes, the fundamentals the same, higher orders come first. BUT

    -Multiplication comes before division in some forms, like PEMDAS. In the example I use, this changes the answer.

    -When you apply an operation, you should specify what it is operating on. In all of these acronyms, addition comes before subtraction, but with a different example:

    2 - 2 + 2

    The minus sign only applies to the middle term, by convention. It is the equivalent of “adding negative two”. You can quickly see that this expression is equal to 2.

    But if you use one of these acronyms, you end with this expression evaluating to -2. I would say it is almost universally accepted that 2 is the correct answer, and -2 is incorrect. Basically, all these acronyms end up being useless waste of time.

    I don’t know if I conveyed this the first time, but, as a lover of pure mathematics, this is something that does not have application in life or in study. It’s an utterly useless waste of time. There is never a case where someone give you numbers like this, where it is not clear what order the numbers should be applied in.



  • Even your “BODMAS” isn’t universal, lots of people learn “PEMDAS” or “BEDMAS”

    At any level of mathematics after elementary school, you never see terrible expressions like this. Well, except for facebook and twitter

    Take for example: 2/2*2 It is 0.5 or 2 depending on order. But if I were anything after high school (I was more complacent in high school, I guess) if someone gave me an arbitrarily solved equation or expression like this, I would be livid and raise hell at them for trying to do that.



  • SF3 was my first. People used to swear by SF4, as if it was better. I don’t understand that choice.

    It took me two tries, but I did complete a whole SF4 world, all the achievements, too (aside from broken Twilight Forest ones). It was good, but I liked it less than any other I played, including Stoneblocks and the new SkyFactory One.

    I like the Nuclear Craft more than most other big energy production mods, but SF4 has nothing to spend it all on. So, yeah, I made a max size fission and then fusion reactor, which is fun, but without Draconic Evolution or something to sap it away, it feels like it ended much sooner.

    That and the linearity. Though with some packs it’s kinda preferable, I just guess it isn’t the SkyFactory way.



  • Not incredibly certain, but it could also be the opposite.

    For instance, it could be pointing out the stupidity of those who call something outside of the binary a mental disorder. I’m not much of a linguist myself, but surely there’d be no point in using only 'I’s.

    Then again, if you looked at their post history to find those other two, maybe they put zero thought into this as well. Or maybe those two examples weren’t from the same user. This looks oddly cut and unexplained, so it’s not like it makes a difference in the end as to the fact that it is a low quality post.