• The result of a multiplication operation is called a product

        Now you’re getting it - axb=ab. axb is Multiplication of 2 Terms, ab is the single Product. It’s the reason that 8/2(1+3) and 8/2x(1+3) give different answers 🙄

        Show me one textbook where a(b+c)2 gets an a2 term

        I already gave you many that tell you a(b+c)=(ab+ac) Mr. Ostrich - which part of a(b+c)=(ab+ac) are you having trouble understanding?

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          Multiplying two things makes them one term.

          “When a product involves a variable, it is customary to omit the symbol X of multiplication. Thus, 3 X n is written 3n and means three times n, and a X b is written ab and means a times b.” Modern Algebra: Structure And Method, page 36. Immediately before the definition you’re now lying about.

          Fuck your non-sequitur. a(b+c)2 is a*(b+c)2, as backed up by - for example - these four math textbooks. No textbook will ever say it produces an a2 term. You made it up. You’re just full of shit.

          • Multiplying two things makes them one term

            You so nearly had it, look “two things”! Yes axb is 2 Terms being Multiplied to make them one 😂

            Immediately before the definition you’re now lying about

            Nope! Says exactly what I already said, and I have no idea why you think it says otherwise. Now read the next page, which tells you ab is one Term and doesn’t say that axb is 1 Term. 🙄 You’re proven wrong by the very textbook you’re quoting from! 😂

            Fuck your non-sequitur

            Says person trying to disprove a(b+c)=(ab+ac) by dragging a(bc)²=ab²c² to try and make a false equivalence argument 😂

            a(b+c)2 is a*(b+c)2

            No it isn’t! 😂 The first is one term, the second is two terms

            for example - these four math textbooks.

            Says Mr. Ostrich, still ignoring the dozens of textbooks I posted saying a(b+c)=(ab+ac)

            No textbook will ever say it produces an a2 term

            No, it produces an ab term and an ac term, a(b+c)=(ab+ac) 🙄

            You made it up. You’re just full of shit

            Says Mr. Ostrich, now completely full of shit, still ignoring the dozens of textbooks I posted, including ones written before I was even born

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              Yes… to make them one.

              a*b and ab are both the product of a and b, and a product is one term. As explained by the textbook you chose.

              a*b2 is ab2, even if b=(x+y). No textbook you’re grasping for contains your made-up exception. They all show what I’m rubbing your nose in. You’re just full of shit.