I never ran into PEMDAS while growing up, in Sweden I’ve always been taught of it as the following order of operations:
- P
- E & Roots
- M & D
- A & S
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I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
PEMDAS bitches.
I never ran into PEMDAS while growing up, in Sweden I’ve always been taught of it as the following order of operations:
Technically roots are a form of exponent, just fractional (square root is power of 1/2, for instance). I can see how it could be easier to conceptualize when you break it down like that though. Neat to see the differences compared to the US breakdown :)
Technically we go for 2. Powers & Roots, I just didn’t want to break the PEMDAS when comparing. :)
That’s PEMDAS…
They aren’t using the same words so the shorthand (if they have one) is different. I don’t think we had a shorthand for it either, we just learned it.
And we learned them in groups numbered like the Swedes
Okay then, but, fun story, the BODMAS they’re talking about is also just PEMDAS using different words and a different listed order for multiplication/division
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally… bitches.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
It’s interesting that you can somewhat tell where you are from based on this, I learned it as BODMAS
radioactivefunguy@piefed.ca 10 months ago
O - oxponent?
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Orders.
Brackets, Orders (powers and roots), Division, Multiplication, Addition, and Subtraction
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
This is fucking so many people over… It should be limited - like Orders - to only Multiplication and Addition.
Because division is the same operation as multiplication, and subtraction is the same operation as addition, and they have the same “weight” in the order of operations (meaning, you do them left-to-right).
SmartmanApps@programming.dev 9 months ago
To the Order of. 2² is 2 to the order of 2
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I learned BODMAS too! It seems BIDMAS is another one (British I think), PEMDAS is the weird American one, BEDMAS is a thing too. You’re able to vary the first letter (parenthesis or brackets), second letter (indices/exponent/“order” or “operation”), and the order of multiplication/division (MS or SM) and addition/SUBTRACTION (AD or DA)
Very interesting indeed.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
We need a super position of all of them.
Endmaker@ani.social 10 months ago
Where are pemdas and bodmas users from?
DavidGA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pemdas, USA. Bodmas, UK.
azi@mander.xyz 10 months ago
BEDMAS, Canada
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I think most former British colonies use BODMAS
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
It talks about it here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Mnemoni…