I don’t understand why people say Maths. Math encompasses every single type of Math. Maths is just wrong.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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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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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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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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