Mog Spawn@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoMath is not a democracylemmy.worldimagemessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down11
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageMath is not a democracylemmy.worldMog Spawn@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square9linkfedilink
minus-squareFackCurs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoThis isn’t even math, just convention on rules for order of operations.
minus-squarequail@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoOrder of operations only has one rule: Bedmas (or pemdas if you’re not from north america)
minus-squareAxExRx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoHuh it was always pemdas in both highschool and college in new England for me… they were also always parentheses. ‘Brackets’ only reffered to ‘[ ]’ which were reserved for matrices or number sets, eg 2*[2,5,8]+2= [6,12,18]
minus-squareEuphoma@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoI think canadians call ( ) brackets in math
This isn’t even math, just convention on rules for order of operations.
Order of operations only has one rule: Bedmas (or pemdas if you’re not from north america)
Huh it was always pemdas in both highschool and college in new England for me… they were also always parentheses. ‘Brackets’ only reffered to ‘[ ]’ which were reserved for matrices or number sets, eg 2*[2,5,8]+2= [6,12,18]
I think canadians call ( ) brackets in math