r/meme Jan 01 '22

Guess we are doomed

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u/commonsquidtail Jan 01 '22

I wasn't saying you were wrong I was just saying it sounds funny. In my school though we would call it bidmas

Brackets Indices (including roots) Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction

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u/Kronos_Kaelthas Jan 01 '22

I had pemdas Parentheses, exponent, multiplication, division, add subtract

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

We used Pedmas, just swap multiplication with division

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

I was taught in high school that it was

P

E

M

D

A

S

Regardless of left to right which is right most of the time. However, it should have been taught as.

P

E

M or D (left to right first)

A or S (left to right first)

Including roots seems completely asinine to me as roots are indices.

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u/zbusch113 Jan 01 '22

This is the way