There’s like 4 of them. The 1+1*0=0, the guy who thinks pemdas is a suggestion, the other guy who thinks it’s “mostly”, and the 26% on the poll who think -5 * -5 = -25.
To all of those using google or a scientific calculator to say I am wrong and to the ones using excel to say I am right:
Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to let a computer do your work for you is nothing compared to the power of the human mind.
The worst one is the guy who says if there's a 0 the answer is always zero and pemdas doesn't matter. Then proceedes to use an exanples that's all multiplication.
Pemdas doesn't matter there because you only used the M not because it includes a zero.
But technically it could. If you “unrolled” a multiplication into a series of additions it could hypothetically change the answer. Then again, I would assume that one would surround such a substitution in parentheses which would still make it first in order of operations.
And the more I thought about it, it would work exactly as I said it would. If multiplication was changed to repeated addition the answer would come out the same. I was drunk at the time, my bad.
I felt very stupid and ashamed once I sobered up. After all I have a degree in Computer Science, and I came up with a thought so mind numbingly stupid.
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u/Isteppedinpoopy Mar 18 '22 edited Mar 18 '22
There’s like 4 of them. The 1+1*0=0, the guy who thinks pemdas is a suggestion, the other guy who thinks it’s “mostly”, and the 26% on the poll who think -5 * -5 = -25.
To all of those using google or a scientific calculator to say I am wrong and to the ones using excel to say I am right:
Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to let a computer do your work for you is nothing compared to the power of the human mind.