A wild guess, but probably these women thought their man is very reliable so they wouldn't argue with their man? and just say yes to whatever their man says..

Again, it's a wild guess..

The thing that is confusing to me though is that math is precise - especially when considering massive undertakings like space flight for example

There are laws of physics and math… so if the reasons why the order of multiplication vs addition (despite leading to potentially VASTLY different conclusions) are somewhat arbitrary… why does it still work?

The example in the original post lead to two different answers, and that was an extremely basic example.

How does this work with hundreds of different calculations?

I wasn't trying to be clever, I was just choosing random numbers.

You're right, though, and you definitely can use long multiplication to multiply any two rationals using only addition (though not sure if/how you can reduce to the lowest terms).

I got lost/distracted and started arguing something I didn't mean to initially. My initial argument that I still hold is that you can't define multiplication as simply repeated addition, and to further clarify I mean strictly that if you multiply a and b you add a to itself b-1 times.

Multiplication is like a crate/set or something. 1 Apple plus 2 crates with 3 apples each. 1 + 2x3 ... = 7.

Because in a group, we are only dealing with a single associative binary operation, in which case parenthesis are indeed unnecessary.

You have some evidence to back that statement up?

It’s an honest question. I don’t think you understood the question if you think I’m talking about men when I asked “why do women like to be dominated”.

In the UK the kitchen tap/faucet is attached directly to the incoming water main pipe.

The bathroom sinks, particularly in older houses, was sent through a header tank, so that the cold tap had a similar pressure and/or flow rate to the hot tap/faucet which was also regulated by a header tank.

Sometimes if not properly covered, those tanks were home to dead pigeons or squirrels, so you never drank from anywhere but the kitchen tap.

Might that explain the taste at your house?

Seeing if the water comes out at the same rate as the kitchen tap would be a good first test to see how it might be plumbed.

A single gunshot wound can cause significant damage. The prospect of bleeding out or a lung collapsing is very real unless help can be reached quickly. Once the next line of help is reached, repair can be complex and complications can arise.

But yeah, your question makes little sense, if you could refine or reword it.

>Like 5x^2 is really obvious what it's supposed to be to most people

In the spirit of the original question, you could argue: why is it obvious that 5x² means 5*(x²) and not (5*x)²?

Indeed people often get confused over -x²: is that (-1)(x²) or (-1x)²?

Your bathroom water might come from a storage tank, in which case, you probably shouldn't drink it.

Can you rephrase 'either in minutes to days after receiving necessary surgery' ?

If you're writing BASIC (well apple][e/c64 era basic) it's not. You don't really have a choice. Now...probably is and not sure what youd even use it for other than some lazy hackish stuff.

you're trying to be clever using those decimals, but the concept is still the same.

First let's convert those decimals into symbology that's easier to work with (fractions):

0.75 = 3/4

0.44 = 11/25

0.75 x 0.44 = 3/4 x 11/25

So therefore using ADDITION to evaluate the multiplication of the fractions,

11+11+11 = 33 for the numerator

25+25+25+25 = 100 for the denominator

The fraction 33/100 simplifies to 0.33 in decimal form.

Experts can tell you where a wine was made and when, what are you on about?

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That has more to do with wine tasting being absolute bullshit than mental association even… they can put them in glasses with no bottles and the experts still aren’t on point compared to when they arent Pepsi challenged

That is, indeed, the whole point. You practice them so that they become second nature when you do more complicated math.

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I don't think we disagree that doing multiplication prior to addition makes sense intuitively.

My point is that there's nothing forcing us to do it that way, and we could have a well defined system where we add and subtract first. If you disagree with that, then fair enough.

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Here it is the opposite, my cat doesn’t like the water from the kitchen sink but the water from the bathroom sink 😺

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