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[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I assume p is for "parentheses", because where I grew up it was BEDMAS, for brackets.

[–] lillardfair@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Blease Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Blease Excuse Dear My Aunt Sally

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I was taught BEDMAS as well in school (Ontario, Canada)

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, indeed - it encompasses parantheses, brackets, and braces.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

BODMAS or BOMDAS in Australia since we call ordinals ordinals

Brackets have pretty much always been needed to disambiguate precedence between addition and subtraction (which is really all addition) and between multiplication and division

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

Brackets have pretty much always been needed

No they aren't. Addition and Subtraction in any order, Multiplication and Division in any order. Only needs brackets if the order matters