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Originally Posted by AkamaruChewtoy
I think you may want to stop and check the credibility of where ever you got that from, particularly to identify what they consider "educated". Anyway, order of operations, blah blah, pointless thread not funny.
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QFT.
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Originally Posted by stubborn_d0nkey
It was probably intentional
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Of course it was, it lacks the appropriate symbols.
Fist of all 2(9+3) is NOT always 2*(9+3). Some people/institutions interpret it as 2^(9+3), which would be a completely different number, so the lack of the indication of operation is faulty.
Also, the presentation is laughable. This is how you represent division (for example):
That ÷ symbol is nonexistent after elementary school classes (at least here). So that's another thing that is incredibly faulty.
Finally, the order of operations depends on the countries: here division has priority over multiplication, but it's different depending on the institution/country, so of course it'll have different results.
So, with might be 2 (if you multiply before division), 288 (if you divide before multiplication) or 3/256 (if you use exponential instead of multiplication).
There, happy?