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[–] Jayve@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

PEMDAS, is that the same as BOMDAS?

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

BOMDAS deez nuts or something

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Why do people put bot pairs of multiplication and division, and addition and subtraction on the acronym?

Do you really follow that order with the associative operations?

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

do you think i know what an associative operation is?

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Why do people put bot pairs of multiplication and division, and addition and subtraction on the acronym?

Because it's intended to be used as a checklist

Do you really follow that order with the associative operations?

Yep

[–] Tithen@anarchist.nexus 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think so. Amazing how many different ways there are to say it

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So instead of Parentheses, Exponents is it Box and O that digit in the sky?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Brackets and Orders, not that anybody calls "(" a bracket or "^" an "order".

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Brackets and Orders, not that anybody calls “(” a bracket or “^” an “order”.

It's "to the order of" actually. 2² is 2 to the order of 2

not that anybody calls “(” a bracket

Yes we do. They're ALL Brackets - square, round, squiggly...

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

They're all just different mnemonics for the same rules.