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[–] -5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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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  • [–] 2 points 10 months 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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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    Nothing about math is real

    You spelt "everything" wrong

    Every single thing about it is abstract

    Representing something real underneath in every case - 1+1=2 can refer to apples, eggs, cardboard boxes, anything at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    PEMDAS isn’t even real

    Yes it is

    It’s something we made up

    No it isn't. They are proven rules of Maths arising from the definitions of the operators to begin with.

    Creating fake problems by inserting ambiguity is ridiculous

    There's no ambiguity in the order of operations rules

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    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. 🙄

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