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Originally Posted by mankycaaant
Remember your BODMAS, Dali.
Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.
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There was a thread similar to this on here before, and it came down to what people were actually taught in school as to what were the correct order of operations (both of which had equally substantial and supportive material and arguments)
Besides BODMAS, there was PEMDAS
Parentheses
Exponents
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction
Using this method, one would get:
6 - 1 x 0 + 2 / 2
6 - (1 x 0) + 2 / 2 [Multiplication]
= 6 - 0 + (2 / 2) [Division]
= 6 - 0 + 1
= 6 - (0 + 1) [Addition]
= 6 - 1 [Subtraction]
= 5
All the discussions basically amounted to exercises in futility. No agreement could be made on whether once the equation was simplified, if addition always took precedence over subtraction [the AS is PEMDAS], and multiplication over division [the MD in PEMDAS], regardless of their left-to-right order in the equation.