• quail@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    Order of operations only has one rule: Bedmas (or pemdas if you’re not from north america)

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      14 hours ago

      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]