I learned BODMAS too! It seems BIDMAS is another one (British I think), PEMDAS is the weird American one, BEDMAS is a thing too. You’re able to vary the first letter (parenthesis or brackets), second letter (indices/exponent/“order” or “operation”), and the order of multiplication/division (MS or SM) and addition/SUBTRACTION (AD or DA)
Technically roots are a form of exponent, just fractional (square root is power of 1/2, for instance). I can see how it could be easier to conceptualize when you break it down like that though. Neat to see the differences compared to the US breakdown :)
PEMDAS bitches.
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally… bitches.
It’s interesting that you can somewhat tell where you are from based on this, I learned it as BODMAS
I learned BODMAS too! It seems BIDMAS is another one (British I think), PEMDAS is the weird American one, BEDMAS is a thing too. You’re able to vary the first letter (parenthesis or brackets), second letter (indices/exponent/“order” or “operation”), and the order of multiplication/division (MS or SM) and addition/SUBTRACTION (AD or DA)
Very interesting indeed.
We need a super position of all of them.
O - oxponent?
Orders.
Brackets, Orders (powers and roots), Division, Multiplication, Addition, and Subtraction
Where are pemdas and bodmas users from?
It talks about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Mnemonics
Pemdas, USA. Bodmas, UK.
I think most former British colonies use BODMAS
But the USA seems to use PEMDAS? I’m confused now…
They mean Commonwealth countries more precisely
Yeah, my bad
BEDMAS, Canada
I never ran into PEMDAS while growing up, in Sweden I’ve always been taught of it as the following order of operations:
That’s PEMDAS…
Technically roots are a form of exponent, just fractional (square root is power of 1/2, for instance). I can see how it could be easier to conceptualize when you break it down like that though. Neat to see the differences compared to the US breakdown :)
Technically we go for 2. Powers & Roots, I just didn’t want to break the PEMDAS when comparing. :)