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PEMDAS

PEMDAS

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Order of operations.

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    Chrystal's book was the canonical source in English about secondary school algebra of the turn of the 20th century, and plausibly the source for many later descriptions of the order of operations. However, while Chrystal's book initially establishes a rigid rule for evaluating expressions involving '÷' and '×' symbols, it later consistently gives implicit multiplication higher precedence than division when writing inline fractions, without ever explicitly discussing the discrepancy between formal rule and common practice.

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  16. ^ . In this article, Strogatz describes the order of operations as taught in middle school. However, in a comment, he points out,
    "Several commenters appear to be using a different (and more sophisticated) convention than the elementary PEMDAS convention I described in the article. In this more sophisticated convention, which is often used in algebra, implicit multiplication (also known as multiplication by juxtaposition) is given higher priority than explicit multiplication or explicit division (in which one explicitly writes operators like × * / or ÷). Under this more sophisticated convention, the implicit multiplication in 2(2 + 2) is given higher priority than the explicit division implied by the use of ÷. That’s a very reasonable convention, and I agree that the answer is 1 if we are using this sophisticated convention.
    "But that convention is not universal. For example, the calculators built into Google and WolframAlpha use the less sophisticated convention that I described in the article; they make no distinction between implicit and explicit multiplication when they are asked to evaluate simple arithmetic expressions. [...]"
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