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[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

It's interesting that you can somewhat tell where you are from based on this, I learned it as BODMAS

[–] radioactivefunguy@piefed.ca 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

O - oxponent?

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Orders.

Brackets, Orders (powers and roots), Division, Multiplication, Addition, and Subtraction

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Division, Multiplication, Addition, and Subtraction

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).

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Another commenter mentioned something similar, how they're interchangeable, but I'm not sure why you say it's fucking people over.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Because the people who learn "DM" or "MD" then spend hours online arguing that you must do one before the other.

[–] moriquende@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Did you mean MD and DM?

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeyeye, sorry, long day.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

People do be arguing, lol

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 7 hours ago

We need a super position of all of them.

[–] Endmaker@ani.social 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Where are pemdas and bodmas users from?

[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Pemdas, USA. Bodmas, UK.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

BEDMAS, Canada

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I think most former British colonies use BODMAS

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

But the USA seems to use PEMDAS? I'm confused now...

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They mean Commonwealth countries more precisely