▲ 690 ▼ Math is not a democracy (lemmy.world) submitted 8 months ago by Mog_Spawn@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world 228 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] scytale@piefed.zip 5 points 8 months ago (2 children) So people just assumed an imaginary parentheses? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Maiq@piefed.social 12 points 8 months ago* (2 children) Parenthesis, Powers(exponents), Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction is the order of mathematics. https://www.mathsisfun.com/operation-order-pemdas.html permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] scytale@piefed.zip 4 points 8 months ago (1 child) Yes, that’s why I was asking why 59% just assumed there were parentheses in the equation. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Maiq@piefed.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) I see your thinking now. I thought you might not remember that multiplication, division comes before addition, subtraction and were just doing right to left operations. Didn't really understand how the imaginary parenthesis came in. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 8 months ago *is a common convention permalink fedilink source parent [+] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 point 8 months ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Maiq@piefed.social 12 points 8 months ago* (2 children) Parenthesis, Powers(exponents), Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction is the order of mathematics. https://www.mathsisfun.com/operation-order-pemdas.html permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] scytale@piefed.zip 4 points 8 months ago (1 child) Yes, that’s why I was asking why 59% just assumed there were parentheses in the equation. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Maiq@piefed.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) I see your thinking now. I thought you might not remember that multiplication, division comes before addition, subtraction and were just doing right to left operations. Didn't really understand how the imaginary parenthesis came in. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 8 months ago *is a common convention permalink fedilink source parent
[–] scytale@piefed.zip 4 points 8 months ago (1 child) Yes, that’s why I was asking why 59% just assumed there were parentheses in the equation. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Maiq@piefed.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) I see your thinking now. I thought you might not remember that multiplication, division comes before addition, subtraction and were just doing right to left operations. Didn't really understand how the imaginary parenthesis came in. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Maiq@piefed.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) I see your thinking now. I thought you might not remember that multiplication, division comes before addition, subtraction and were just doing right to left operations. Didn't really understand how the imaginary parenthesis came in. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 8 months ago *is a common convention permalink fedilink source parent
