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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

PEMDAS evaluated from left to right. If you followed that you’d get 16. 1 is ignoring left to right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

1 isn't ignoring anything. 16 can be arrived at by ignoring any one of multiple order of operations rules.