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 (×).
So epsilon and phi are just constants that cancel each other out? Wow. This is legit the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard, narrowly beating Narendra Modi’s (a+b)^2 debacle (he said that the 2ab was ‘extra’). Fucking illiterate, aren’t they?