Found the Canadian
Nope, it's the same in Australia and the U.K.
Brackets and Orders, not that anybody calls “(” a bracket or “^” an “order”.
It's "to the order of" actually. 2² is 2 to the order of 2
not that anybody calls “(” a bracket
Yes we do. They're ALL Brackets - square, round, squiggly...
Why do people put bot pairs of multiplication and division, and addition and subtraction on the acronym?
Because it's intended to be used as a checklist
Do you really follow that order with the associative operations?
Yep
They're all just different mnemonics for the same rules.
BODMAS (or BEDMAS), not BOMDAS. (unless they did that in some random state). I'm an Australian Maths teacher
multiplication and division are the same operation
No they're not, but they are both binary operators.
in order to stop confusing people, it should just be: BOMA.
Leaving out D and S confuses people about where to do them in the order. It's intended to be used as a checklist
OMG! That's the first time I've actually seen AI get order of operations right! 😂
You don’t necessarily have to do parentheses first
Yes, you do necessarily have to do it first
What matters is that the things inside the parentheses are a group that you can’t break apart
And outside, and you must do them first. You haven't finished Brackets until you have 5(8-5)=15.
10÷2+3-2*(2+1) you can do the division first
only because you've separated that part with a plus sign
We created math
We discovered it. There are even multiple animals who know how to count
It didn’t make sense to me to multiply the 3 & the 5 with zero consideration for the “2”
That's what the order of operations rules say to do. 2 doesn't come into it until you get down to the Addition step.
Writing it like (8+5)5+2 =17 also makes perfect sense
Actually that's invalid syntax. Imagine if it was (8-5)-5 and you see why.
Why?
Well, everyone was taught what to do with it in high school.