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minus-squareDupelet@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoInput from a published Berkeley professor: PEMDAS does NOT cover this, it’s ambiguous and there’s no ‘correct’ answer https://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.html
minus-squareDupelet@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoWhat’s not the same thing? The entire article is about this class of math problems. Did you bother reading it?
Input from a published Berkeley professor: PEMDAS does NOT cover this, it’s ambiguous and there’s no ‘correct’ answer
https://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.html
Not the same thing
What’s not the same thing? The entire article is about this class of math problems. Did you bother reading it?