Toes♀@ani.social to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 year agoGlitch in the matrixani.socialexternal-linkmessage-square386fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
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minus-squareLimitless_screaming@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoNo, you’d expect that -2^2 would equal 4, but calculators solve it as -(2)^2 not (-2)^2. But the case you mentioned is also pretty common.
minus-squareReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoif you’ve touched polynomials ever, you’d expect the exponent to be before the negation. If you write x³-x² you don’t mean x³ + (-x)² = x³+x², you mean x³-(x²)
No, you’d expect that -2^2 would equal 4, but calculators solve it as -(2)^2 not (-2)^2. But the case you mentioned is also pretty common.
if you’ve touched polynomials ever, you’d expect the exponent to be before the negation. If you write x³-x² you don’t mean x³ + (-x)² = x³+x², you mean x³-(x²)