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Gonna keep shouting until it sticks;
Put a goddamn function sign for the parenthesis. Don't assume everyone just knows what to do with the parenthesis alone. Fml it bugs me every time this meme gets posted.
Google implied multiplication.
Do you write 2x or do you write 2 • x?
That's implied multiplication, if x= (a+b) then 2x becomes 2(a+b). Implied multiplication
There's no such thing. It's a Term/Product. Google is a prime source of Maths disinformation (yes, they have been told it's wrong, repeatedly, so it's disinformation).
2a=(2xa) by definition, and 5(8-5)=(5x8-5x5).
No, that's a Term/Product.
Terms/Products
I mean, I don't like to argue about this, since I am not a native English speaker, but there is an implied multiplication there.
or Factoristion, ab+ac=a(b+c) <== a Product of a and (b+c)
And yet here you are arguing with someone who is and is a Maths teacher
Nope! It's a Term/Product. There's no such thing as "implied multiplication" - you won't find it in any Maths textbook
That time I didn't use the term implied multiplication I merely said that the multiplication is implied
And there's no such thing as either 🙄