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I think one thing that really hurts people in our field, and why we see so many questions in this particular section of the forums, is...

Hmm. Microsoft's calculator is PEMDAS too. I have to wonder if that's why my classic, recently depreciated, Windows calendar events...

Good morning, class! Did everybody finish their homework assignments? What a lovely treatise, wasn't it? And what a lovely girl, too. I...

Aha! It isn't the whole world that wants to change to only PEMDAS rather than the long-time PEJMDAS, it's the North American teachers...

Just do a find for juxtaposition.

It's ok, happens to the best of us. :) I think I found out where you're going wrong. You're using PEMDAS not PEJMDAS! It seems that...

Maybe I got the idea from this guy? :tongue:

I have NO trouble getting 64 the first way — the cleaner, simpler looking way.

The expression 2(2+2) is welded together in my mind as a single value because of some long-ago math training. I'm not alone in this...

I don't need it explained, I need validation for how I learned it. It's pretty obvious you need to talk to the computer in computer...

You mean we can't solve this problem without additional symbols than the original post? "Two people each have 2 red boxes and 2 green...

I've been consulting my collection of them. The thing is, they all use the vinculum, which avoids controversy. Even my physics texts. I...

Too late. The Law of Primacy, ya know...

Not by MY logic. I'd get 10.

Which Law states that? Would Newton or Einstein agree? What piques my interest in this thread is I never heard of PEMDAS, but have heard...