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A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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This kind of problem falls under "communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood". Use parenthesis and the problem goes away.
https://xkcd.com/169/
on that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences
People try and use commas for this sort of clarification and are eviscerate for it.
With these sort of math problems, the rules are taught early and then all subsequent math is written in an unambiguous form.
Language has the oddity of going the other way around where the rules get more complex as a display for advanced skills.
God, can you even spell???
Get your act together.
/s