• Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    PEMDAS isn’t even real. It’s something we made up to make stupid people feel better about being poor communicators. I challenge someone to create a word problem that actually requires the use of pemdas where you couldn’t just reword the problem to actually make sense.

    Creating fake problems by inserting ambiguity is ridiculous.

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      1 month ago

      Nothing about math is real. Every single thing about it is abstract.

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      1 month ago

      The point is to allow more concise representation of problems that don’t include words. If you’re willing to be arbitrarily verbose, you can just add enough parentheses that you don’t need the other five letters.

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        23 days ago

        Ok than I guess according to you PEMDSA doesn’t work. Or what about PEDMAS or PEDMSA maybe? Oh wait we made up that order cuz it’s easier to say? No way, color me shocked.

        • Ok than I guess according to you PEMDSA doesn’t work

          Oh course it does, and I have no idea why you think I would think otherwise! 😂

          Or what about PEDMAS or PEDMSA maybe?

          Yep, they all work

          Oh wait we made up that order cuz it’s easier to say?

          No, you made it up because your country has a chip on it’s shoulder about doing it the same way as the rest of the world. 🙄