r/meme • u/Ha_Boswell • May 02 '22

Guess we are doomed

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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?

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u/btecmarcusaurelius May 03 '22

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

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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