possible related topics priority of operations
Learners may know acronyms such as BIDMAS or BODMAS or PEMDAS for the order of operations. Are these just arbitrary conventions? Would it work just as well if the operations came in a different order. What would a ‘BIMSAD’ mathematical world be like, for instance?
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