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Ambiguous PEMDAS (Heavy discussion of 6÷2(1+2)=? in the footnote updates)
- bckr 6y agoUse more parentheses.
- indigodaddy 6y agoTrue, but that would of course eliminate the ambiguity.
- indigodaddy 6y agoThis webpage is about ambiguous math problems with respect to order of operations rule sets.. I went looking for further information/discussion related to the currently viral Facebook subject of “ 6÷2(1+2)=?”, and there is some excellent discussion in this article on that particular problem in the footnote updates.
- phendrenad2 6y agoAh yes, I was just thinking about this problem and the flame wars it generates. If I had my way the division symbol would be outlawed so the world could just move on.