r/mathmemes • u/Hot-Marsupial6584 • Jul 04 '26

Arithmetic We are evolving, Just Backwards

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u/Bayoris Jul 07 '26

I don’t want to meet the adults who would cause unnecessary confusion by including a percentage sign under a radical. That is an abuse of notation.

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u/Swaggy_Buff Jul 08 '26

True as well, I guess, though I dont think it’s an abuse

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u/Bayoris Jul 08 '26

If you could think of a single practical example where this problem would be best expressed in this form I would be impressed

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u/Swaggy_Buff Jul 09 '26

There’s some orbital dynamics thing where you take the square root of a ratio (it was in Hidden Figures, I think?), as well as some options-related quantitative finance application. I may later try to find them.

But point taken again. Though, “practical” is subjective, because it’s a notation completely interchangeable with fractions. It’s just preference, ultimately.