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As someone who has lived on the West Coast of the US for decades, I have never heard any American call (), brackets.
by rxhernandez 4y ago
As someone who has lived on the West Coast of the US for decades, I have never heard any American call (), brackets.
- zeven7 4y agoChiming in as someone who has lived decades in both South East US and North East US. I've also never heard () called "brackets" only "parentheses". This includes in and out of programming circles. I assumed the comment saying "parens: ()" was talking about US, but the replies seem to be interpreting the opposite.
- grouseway 4y agoNever? You guys don't use the BEDMAS acronym in grade school for teaching order of operations? I've only ever called them brackets.
- the_only_law 4y ago> BEDMAS Was PEMDAS for us.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> You guys don't use the BEDMAS acronym in grade school for teaching order of operations? No, didn't use any acronym for that in grade school, and when I did encounter one used in grade schools, it was PEMDAS, not BEDMAS.
- ctxc 4y agoBODMAS for us...
- mathieuh 4y agoBODMAS for me too, although the "O" always confused me, the "E" standing for "exponent" always made more sense to me than the O" standing for "[to the power] of"
- zeven7 4y agoYeah, never. PEMDAS for sure. What part of the country were you in where you got BEDMAS?
- 2ICofafireteam 4y agoFWIW, I did my schooling on the West coast of British Columbia in the early 90's and it was BEDMAS.
- p90puma 4y agoBEDMAS in Canada (Southern Ontario) circa 2000.