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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
It’s interesting that you can somewhat tell where you are from based on this, I learned it as BODMAS
radioactivefunguy@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
O - oxponent?
SmartmanApps@programming.dev 5 days ago
To the Order of. 2² is 2 to the order of 2
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Orders.
Brackets, Orders (powers and roots), Division, Multiplication, Addition, and Subtraction
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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).
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
We need a super position of all of them.
Endmaker@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Where are pemdas and bodmas users from?
DavidGA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pemdas, USA. Bodmas, UK.
azi@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
BEDMAS, Canada
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I think most former British colonies use BODMAS
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It talks about it here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Mnemoni…