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Glitch in the matrix (ani.social)

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

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (9 children)

The problem is that there's no "external" parentheses to really tell us which is right: (8 / 2) * 4 or 8 / (2 * 4)

The amount of comments here shows how much debate this "simple" thing generates

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

If you agree that parenthesis go first then the equation becomes 8/2x4. Then it's simply left to right because multiplication does not take precedence over division. What's the nuanced talk? That M comes before D in PEMDAS?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Finally someone in here who knows math. Thank you.

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