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[–] Zummy@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (24 children)

I don’t understand why people say Maths. Math encompasses every single type of Math. Maths is just wrong.

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[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Ah damn it. It took me ages to find a calculator app that fits my needs..... And now I find out it works like the one on the right.

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[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

8÷2(2+2)=2(2+2)÷2(2+2)

alternatively if 8÷2(2+2)=16 that means 2(2+2)=8÷16 in other words 8=0,5 which it isnt

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[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 11 months ago

so far as I know, [BIDMAS] is a creation of some educator, who has taken conventions in real use, and extended them to cover cases where there is no accepted convention. So it misleads students; and moreover, if students are taught PEMDAS by rote without the proviso mentioned above, they will not even get the standard interpretation of a−b+c.

Absolutely rekt.

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