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Glitch in the matrix (ani.social)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Uh.. no the 1 is wrong? Division and multiplication have the same precedence, so the correct order is to evaluate from left to right, resulting in 16.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The real correct order is to use brackets to remove ambiguity.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Exactly, these types of problems are designed to make people confused and discuss PEMDAS and drive social media engagement.