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[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Also by the time you've learned order of operations, you've outgrown the ÷ operator. You would never write 1 ÷ (2 * 5), you would write it with a proper numerator and denominator like anyone outside of elementary school would.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I hate these math problems you see on social media. No one would write that way or code that way. It is ambiguous, and even if it weren't it is still hard to figure out. I think in my entire career I have seen one single line of code that took PEMDAS to sort out, I remember that line and the programmer told me that they were exploiting a feature of the complier to get slightly faster results. He was an annoying person

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