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Tithen@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Jayve@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  PEMDAS, is that the same as BOMDAS?

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    BOMDAS deez nuts or something

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?

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    • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨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

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    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      do you think i know what an associative operation is?

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  • Tithen@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was BEDMAS for us, where the E was exponents or something.

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Found the Canadian

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    • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Found the Canadian

      Nope, it’s the same in Australia and the U.K.

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      • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Sorry, found the Commonwealther

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• SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Was anyone else ever taught it as BOMDAS as opposed to BODMAS?

  I don’t think so, and I’ve seen Maths textbooks form all over the world. Only the U.S. wants to reverse the order of DM from everyone else’s acronym. 🙄

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• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s no difference.

  Addition and subtraction are the same operation, multiplication and division are the same operations.

  So:

  BO(MD)(AS) == BO(DM)(AS)

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    multiplication and division are the same operation

    No they’re not, but they are both binary operators.

    in order to stop confusing people, it should just be: BOMA.

    Leaving out D and S confuses people about where to do them in the order. It’s intended to be used as a checklist

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You already said that to me. I replied here.

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      • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You already said that to me

        And you’re still ignoring it

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• princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, I was taught BOMDAS here in Australia.

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    BODMAS (or BEDMAS), not BOMDAS. (unless they did that in some random state). I’m an Australian Maths teacher

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    • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or it was some random teacher. Or it was more than fifteen years ago. I dunno, it was just what I was taught.

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      • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Or it was some random teacher

        Yeah, maybe. My Year 7 students, who have come fresh to me from Year 6, use BEDMAS, and I teach BEDMAS for consistency (I also think it’s a better acronym anyway - think of a massive 4-poster bed to ingrain the idea of BED-MAS)…

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  • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was taught BODMAS in Australia

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was taught only Brackets Division Subtraction Multiplication at the local dungeon.

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• essell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its BOSMAS for maths and BOMDAS for twerking.

  Easy mistake to make given the amount of maths involved in dancing.

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