Keith Devlin on Nostr: Algebra ain't what you think it is. New post in my Mathematics Outreach Project blog, ...
Algebra ain't what you think it is. New post in my Mathematics Outreach Project blog, where I look at those recurring Internet debates where people get different answers to a simple arithmetic problem, such as "8 ÷ 2(2 + 2)".
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