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Math is not a democracy (lemmy.world)
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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Yes, that’s why I was asking why 59% just assumed there were parentheses in the equation.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

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