Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🥔💎 Sunday, May 19, 2024
Baku@aussie.zone 1 year agoI really hate that that’s even a thing. Logically, my brain wants to do it in the order that it’s shown in. Doing it any other way just feels unnatural. Like building a roof before building the house
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Helps to isolate the problem by putting brackets round anything that you KNOW needs to be done separately.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Doesn’t help much if I don’t KNOW what needs to be done separately.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 year ago
PEMDAS
parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.
That’s how I remember it.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I learned BOMDAS
brackets, of, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction
The next year I learned BODMAS instead, which was initially confusing but introduced the idea that the exact order can be a bit variable, as long as you do the multiplication/division bits first.