I had a nightmare just now that I had forgotten to use the mathematical order of operations when performing physics calculations. When I woke up, I thought about it, and realized that, in physics, there is nothing worse than obeying mathematical conventions.
This is also true for other domains of wisdom that contain mathematical calculations, but don’t necessarily get the order of operations correct, like accounting and banking. It’s more important to make allowances for the order in which the motions of the objects took place, or for the order that any other types of transactions may have happened, in all real-world cases, than adhere blindly to the type of functions that need to be performed according to some arbitrarily-ordered checklist.
Time to go back to school and contradict all the teachers.
Please Excuse My Dear Arithmetic Scholar.
This is also true for other domains of wisdom that contain mathematical calculations, but don’t necessarily get the order of operations correct, like accounting and banking. It’s more important to make allowances for the order in which the motions of the objects took place, or for the order that any other types of transactions may have happened, in all real-world cases, than adhere blindly to the type of functions that need to be performed according to some arbitrarily-ordered checklist.
Time to go back to school and contradict all the teachers.
Please Excuse My Dear Arithmetic Scholar.
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