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A microblog post by @kareem_carr saying "as soon as i saw they were using asterisks for multiplication symbols, i knew we were in trouble", with an image from the "Office of the United States Trade Representative (Executive Office of the President)" showing the mathematical formula $\Delta \tau_i = \frac{x_i - m_i}{\varepsilon * \varphi * m_i}$. The formula show asterisks (*) instead of multiplication signs (×).

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[–] missandry351 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anyone here speaks Greek ? What does it say?

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

direct translation: "you're fucked"

[–] BB84@mander.xyz 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

tariff = (export - import) / (<??? factor> × <another ??? factor that cancels the first one out> × import)

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

You might want to go with "multiplicative inverse".