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You quite obviously haven’t read the book or watched the movie lmao

Because that’s not really what spice is at all

Right……

But like if the math adds up then what makes that one French person wrong?

Not sure what point you think you made mate

My question was about the math not about culture

Yes I get that

The question is though

When you have thousands of calculations, again in the instance of like a rocket launch, both are correct as long as everyone is on the same page?

And is the order between adding and multiplying is mostly meaningless as long as everyone is using those same calculations?

But we arrive at two different answers depending on which path we choose

Like if it was a math test should the teacher mark both correct?

Sorry just trying to make sense of how both answers are right when there should be a right answer you know what I mean?

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?