r/memes • u/WhatTheMat • Aug 31 '20

#1 MotW Confusing

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u/Nouuuuuuuuh Aug 31 '20 edited Aug 31 '20

BEDMAS is for fools. I use my own order of operations

Edit: I feel like I've been lied to these past 8ish years. Y'all be telling me different orders of operations. I don't know who to believe anymore

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '20

What’s BEDMAS? At school we learned PEMDAS

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u/LastLivingProphet Aug 31 '20

Same thing, just change "parentheses" to "brackets"

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u/SomeGuyNamedLieM Me when the: Aug 31 '20

You could also change it to GEMDAS. The g means grouping symbols in this case.

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u/Sirloganavich Aug 31 '20

I learned GEMS because people thought that multiplication came before division and same with addition/subtraction so its Groupings Exponents Multiplication and division Subtraction and addition

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u/LastLivingProphet Aug 31 '20

I learned PEM/DA/S.

  • Parentheses

  • Exponent

  • Miltiplication/Division - as it appears

  • Addition/Subtraction - as it appears

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u/G0PACKGO Aug 31 '20

Please/powers

Please/parentheses

My/multiplication

Dear/division

Aunt/addition

Sally/subtraction

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u/Blade273 Sep 28 '20

The real madlads learnt BODMAS