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submitted 11 months ago by Toes@ani.social to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Uh.. no the 1 is wrong? Division and multiplication have the same precedence, so the correct order is to evaluate from left to right, resulting in 16.

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago

The real correct order is to use brackets to remove ambiguity.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 13 points 11 months ago

Exactly, these types of problems are designed to make people confused and discuss PEMDAS and drive social media engagement.

[-] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

There's no multiplication in this question - multiplication refers literally to multiplication signs - only division and brackets, and addition within the brackets. So you have to use The Distributive Law to solve the brackets, then do the division, giving you 1.