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SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I tried Wolfram Alpha, Google, and others, and they all return 128

Yep, all known to give wrong order of operations answers

So either you’re wrong

Well, it’s not me, so…

all people who make these tools professionally are wrong

That’s right. Welcome to programmers writing Maths apps without checking that they have their Maths right first. BTW, in some cases it’s as bad as one of their calculators saying 2+3x4=20! 😂

To be clear, the reason you’re wrong is because distribution is not part of the brackets step

To be clear, I am correct, because Distribution is part of the Brackets step, as we have already established…

Brackets are solved before exponents,

Yes

resulting in 2(8)²

No, you haven’t finished solving the Brackets yet, which you must do before proceeding…

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Remove the brackets and then it’s 2*8²

Nope! We have already established that you cannot remove the brackets if you haven’t Distributed yet

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So what we actually get is…

2(8)²=(2x8)²=16²

and now that I have removed the Brackets, I can now do the exponent,

16²=256

Welcome to you finding the answer to 2x(3+5)² - where the 2 is separate to the brackets, separated from them by the multiply sign - rather than 2(3+5)², which has no multiply sign, and therefore the 2 must be Distributed

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