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[–] psud@aussie.zone 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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[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago

Brackets have pretty much always been needed

No they aren't. Addition and Subtraction in any order, Multiplication and Division in any order. Only needs brackets if the order matters

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