Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 2 days agoIt looks so wrongsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1575arrow-down126
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minus-square50_centavos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down3·1 day agoSo simple math problems are blowing people’s minds now?
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·1 day agoAlways has been. Just wait for the annual “PEDMAS vs PEMDAS” discussion flame-war on any major social media platform.
minus-squareouRKaoS@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 minutes ago“Pedmas” sounds like a holiday for pedophiles… End of debate.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 hours agoWhy? Not sure what the debate is, if you divide/multiply first?
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoIt can matter if you don’t have enough significant figures, so I tend to do division last to preserve as much precision as I can. In theory it shouldn’t matter, but it can matter in practice.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoSo the debate is whether it could or could not matter?
So simple math problems are blowing people’s minds now?
Always has been.
Just wait for the annual “PEDMAS vs PEMDAS”
discussionflame-war on any major social media platform.“Pedmas” sounds like a holiday for pedophiles…
End of debate.
Why? Not sure what the debate is, if you divide/multiply first?
It can matter if you don’t have enough significant figures, so I tend to do division last to preserve as much precision as I can. In theory it shouldn’t matter, but it can matter in practice.
So the debate is whether it could or could not matter?