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• Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  BOMDAS deez nuts or something

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    do you think i know what an associative operation is?

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Tithen@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

        It’s “to the order of” actually. 2² is 2 to the order of 2

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