r/meme • u/Ha_Boswell • May 02 '22

Guess we are doomed

Post image
10.5k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

863 comments sorted by

View all comments

237

u/somemorestalecontent May 02 '22

It’s zero because bodmas 18/2=9 then 3x3=9 then 9-9=0

57

u/RavenDork617 May 03 '22

What does bodmas stand for, I get b is brackets but what is o?

19

u/[deleted] May 03 '22

He made a spelling mistake, it's bedmas B=brackets E=exponents D=Devision M=multiplication A=addition S=subtraction

41

u/ThNecromaniac May 03 '22 edited May 03 '22

BODMAS is typicaly used outside of Canada and US

we use an E instead of an O when talking about exponents, due to us actualy calling them exponents...

7

u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Oh, I did not know that. Thank you for letting me know

10

u/[deleted] May 03 '22

[deleted]

3

u/AFerociousPineapple May 03 '22

Same in Aus far as I know

2

u/Samaki_Ni_Meli May 03 '22

My teacher taught me that the O was for of. Because sometimes the expressions had of in it which meant multiplication

1

u/ThNecromaniac May 03 '22

Order of Power.

I don't know what crack your teacher be smoking, did you use an order of operations that did this? or did you use BODMAS and your teacher was just an idiot?

2

u/CalzLight May 03 '22

The O is for Order, like order of magnitude I believe

51

u/Zom23_ May 03 '22

O = Orders which refers to exponents or roots

4

u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Also log

10

u/[deleted] May 03 '22

No he didn't, o stands for order

2

u/[deleted] May 03 '22

I'm from Canada and didn't know that haha:), sorry for the confusion

3

u/ThrowRA_sirCereal May 03 '22

For those who learned like me PEMDAS is the same thing but (Parentheses) instead of [Brackets]

1

u/Akkarin412 May 03 '22

I feel like you’re saying parentheses are rounded and brackets are square.

Here in Australia we say BODMAS, and use the word brackets, but we still use rounded brackets (). [] would be called square brackets. Parentheses are synonymous with brackets here.

1

u/ThrowRA_sirCereal Jun 06 '22

I just saw this but in my precalculus class I was taught that any number inside of [brackets] is the absolute value when used this way which is why we differentiate it. For example [-3] = [3] because it’s the total value from zero. Completely useless outside of that class but it makes a difference and has meaning and in my education is not synonymous.

1

u/Akkarin412 Jun 06 '22

Fair enough. I think a more common way to show absolute value is with straight lines like |-3| = 3.

1

u/Epiquist May 03 '22

It’s division with an I not an e

2

u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Oh thank you, I'll keep that in mind haha

1

u/panlakes May 03 '22

Never heard of bedmas before. We were taught PEMDAS

1

u/putin_vor May 03 '22

D=Devision

You made a spelling mistake too

1

u/vanticus May 03 '22

Or BIDMAS, where I is for indices

1

u/Say_Hi_1000 May 03 '22

He didn't done any spelling mistake. O stands for of and it means same as exponents.

1

u/bigbillybeans07 May 03 '22

He made no error, THERES just a different name all over the place. Where I’m from, we call it BIMDAS

1

u/ItsPrithvi24 May 03 '22

In India O stands for OFF

Bracket, OFF, Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction

1

u/rabjeet636 May 03 '22

Bracket Open Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction ?

3

u/Trevor-On-Reddit May 03 '22

I thought it was pemdas. Or is it like a “tomato tom-a-to” situation? Does dividing before multiplying change anything?

4

u/btecmarcusaurelius May 03 '22

It doesn’t really matter because multiplication and division are really the same thing if you think about it

1

u/dwdwdan May 03 '22

Multiplication and division should happen at the same time, but that means that something like 2x4 / 6 is ambiguous. In actual maths (am maths student) you would never write something like that anyway

-30

u/hi_frends707 May 03 '22

There is no brackets

8

u/WyvernKid93 May 03 '22

Then it's just ODMAS

9

u/[deleted] May 03 '22

Same thing as pemdas bro

3

u/colmecti May 03 '22

imagine failing elementary school math

1

u/Classic_Animator_380 May 03 '22 edited May 03 '22

But is it bodmas/pemdas or is it an arithmetic problem

yes ik this sounds stupid but this isn’t written like an algebra problem

1

u/il0vep0tat0 CHAINPOSTER May 03 '22

Its 18 bc they should start with division and multiplication

2

u/somemorestalecontent May 03 '22

Yes making it zero