How To Really Understand Order Of Operations

If you blindly follow PEMDAS/BODMAS, you are taking a risk!

Hemanth
Street Science

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How To Really Understand Order Of Operations — An image with the following question: 12 ÷ 4 (1 + 2) = ?? Below this equation, the following text is written: “PEMDAS/BEDMAS/BODMAS”
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Order of operations or operator precedence is a fundamental mathematical concept that school kids typically learn in lower grade school. During my school years, I was taught this concept using the acronym: BODMAS, which stands for Brackets, Order (of operations), Division, Multiplication…

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