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Glitch in the matrix (ani.social)

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[–] Synthead 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

https://math.berkeley.edu/%7Egbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.html

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

so far as I know, [BIDMAS] is a creation of some educator, who has taken conventions in real use, and extended them to cover cases where there is no accepted convention. So it misleads students; and moreover, if students are taught PEMDAS by rote without the proviso mentioned above, they will not even get the standard interpretation of a−b+c.

Absolutely rekt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

https://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.html

The rules of Maths that he manages to completely ignore.