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As a software developer, the less ambiguous your notation is, the better it is for everyone involved. Not only will I use brackets, I'll split my expression into multiple rows and use tabs to make it as readable as humanly possible. And maybe throw a comment or 2 if there's still some black magic involved

Also works if you dont trust yourself with correctly ordering your operations.

I, my head, shake.

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https://youtu.be/KQoJo81lujk

back and forth, forever.

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This is why every calculator should be a RPN calculator.

Improved readability is always good

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The underlying truth of this joke is: Programming syntax is less confusing than mathematical syntax. There are genuinely ambiguous layouts of syntax in math (to a human reader that hasn't internalized PEMDAS, anyways) whereas you get a compilation error if ANYTHING is ambiguous in programming. (yes, I am WELL aware of the frustrations of runtime errors)

My calculator says -2² = -4, so yeah...

I've never seen a calculator that had bracket keys but didn't implement the conventional order of operations.

But anyway, I'm on Team RPN.

I just used the calc on window.. it cannot respect order of operation. Any simple calculator from 1980 was better than that

I feel this in my bones

I recall that there is a myriad of memes of the form 'what is 4-2*3' under which there is always a never ending discussion of confidently incorrect dumbasses denying the existence of the multiplication before addition rule.

So your suspicion is at least not unreasonable

Ooh I love brackets

$((A+B))

Or, you know, you could simplify the terms?

Unfortunately some calculators, such as Google's will ignore your brackets and put in their own anyway. You just gotta find a decent calculator in the first place.

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My calculator uses a stack instead of brackets. #RPN4Life

Is the title a Requiem for a Dream reference?

me using sbcl for everything