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[–] 15 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I assume p is for "parentheses", because where I grew up it was BEDMAS, for brackets.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    BODMAS or BOMDAS in Australia since we call ordinals ordinals

    Brackets have pretty much always been needed to disambiguate precedence between addition and subtraction (which is really all addition) and between multiplication and division

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