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[–] Tithen@anarchist.nexus 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Was anyone else ever taught it as BOMDAS as opposed to BODMAS?

[–] Jayve@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

PEMDAS, is that the same as BOMDAS?

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

BOMDAS deez nuts or something

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why do people put bot pairs of multiplication and division, and addition and subtraction on the acronym?

Do you really follow that order with the associative operations?

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

do you think i know what an associative operation is?

[–] Tithen@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think so. Amazing how many different ways there are to say it

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So instead of Parentheses, Exponents is it Box and O that digit in the sky?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Brackets and Orders, not that anybody calls "(" a bracket or "^" an "order".

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was BEDMAS for us, where the E was exponents or something.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Found the Canadian

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There's no difference.

Addition and subtraction are the same operation, multiplication and division are the same operation.

So:

BO(MD)(AS) == BO(DM)(AS)

EDIT: in order to stop confusing people, it should just be: BOMA.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was taught BOMDAS here in Australia.

[–] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I was taught BODMAS in Australia

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was taught only Brackets Division Subtraction Multiplication at the local dungeon.

(I still have the student loans to prove it.)

[–] essell@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Its BODMAS for maths and BOMDAS for twerking.

Easy mistake to make given the amount of maths involved in dancing.