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To: TobagoJack who wrote (190548)8/3/2022 10:21:43 AM
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Since when has the mathematical precedence of operations been from left to right?

It's all bs as it just is what the convention is, as approved by humans, nothing mathematical in it.

In my school it was multiply before divide. So I got the answer as 1.

It was what I was taught. Division is a harder operation then multiply so you would get all the easy stuff done first then finish with the most difficult part of the calculation... once you have the correct numbers to divide.

Calculators have fried these people brains.

John Napier came up with logarithms in 1614. Using logarithms no need to multiply or divide. Just add or subtract. Mathematicians at the time disapproved the practice as it was regarding as "cheating" on the proper calculation. They regarded the practise as bad because it would make the mind lazy and the brain rot would set in.

They could be right -g-
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