• Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    BEDMAS: Bracket - Exponent - Divide - Multiply - Add - Subtract

    PEMDAS: Parenthesis - Exponent - Multiply - Divide - Add - Subtract

    Firstly, don’t forget exponents come before multiply/divide. More importantly, neither defines wether implied multiplication is a multiply/divide operation or a bracketed operation.

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      Exponents should be the first thing right? Or are we talking the brackets in exponents…

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        Exponents are second, parentheses/brackets are always first. What order you do your exponents in is another ambiguity though.