• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Wikipedia

    In mathematics and computer programming, the order of operations is a collection of conventions about which arithmetic operations to perform first in order to evaluate a given mathematical expression

    What’s that? You don’t trust Wikipedia?
    Ok, you’ve yet to explain why notations like prefix and postfix dont need these “rules”.
    If they were rules of mathematics **itself** how could they only apply to certain notations?

    • Wikipedia

      isn’t a Maths textbook 🙄 far out, did you learn English from Wikipedia too? You sure seem to have trouble understanding the words Maths textbook

      You don’t trust Wikipedia?

      The site that you just quoted which is proven wrong by Maths textbooks, THAT Wikipedia?? 🤣🤣🤣

      you’ve yet to explain why notations like prefix and postfix dont need these “rules”.

      Umm, they do need the rules! 😂

      how could they only apply to certain notations?

      They don’t, they apply to all notations 🙄