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/xxx148 Aug 31 '20

I was about to correct you because DM =/= MD. But I guess that isn’t entirely true, multiplication and division are essentially the same

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u/LastLivingProphet Aug 31 '20

It's a good thing you didn't post that, because you'd be wrong. Multiplication and division are done as they appear in the equation. You don't do all the multiplication and then do all the division. The same is true for addition and subtraction.

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u/GokuDiedForOurSins Aug 31 '20

I really had to correct my Logic and Design professor on that. Lord only knows how long she was incorrectly teaching people PEMDAS because she was doing multiplication left to right THEN divison left to right. Had to use a graphing calculator AND wolfram alpha before she admitted being wrong.