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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You flipped the sign on the 3 and 1.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I did not flip any signs, merely reversed the order in which the operations are written out. If you read the right side from right to left, it has the same meaning as the left side from left to right.

Hell, the convention that the sign is on the left is also just a convention, as is the idea that the smallest digit is on the right (which should be a familiar issue to programmers, if you look up big endian vs little endian)

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev -2 points 3 days ago

I did not flip any signs

Yes you did! 😂

merely reversed the order in which the operations are written out

No, merely reversing the order gives -3-2+1 - you changed the signs on the 1 and 3.

If you read the right side from right to left, it

Starts with -3, which you changed to +3

it has the same meaning as the left side from left to right

when you don't change any of the signs it does 😂

Hell, the convention that the sign is on the left is also just a convention

Nope, it's a rule of Maths, Left Associativity.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If that's your idea of reversing the order, then you're not talking about the same thing as SpaceCadet@feddit.nl. They're talking about the order of operations and the associativity/commutativity property. You're talking about the order of the symbols.