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Re:Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Py... by mojomark on Saturday May 02, 2020 @10:27AM (#23051970)
Concur. A long time ago I spent a full day as a professional engineer trying to figure out why a microsoft Excel formula wasn't working. Turns out that the default MS Excel order of operations was not PEMDAS, it's PE(M or D)(A or S), where 'X or X' is selected based on which operator comes next from left to right.(1) So frustrating. Always use parens.

1. https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/excel2013/complex-formulas/1/

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Re:Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Py... by apricot on Saturday May 02, 2020 @11:06AM (#23052163)
Isn't that the normal way to do things? Every teacher, every textbook has always told me that multiplication and division have the same priority, as do addition and subtraction.
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Re:Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Py... by Dylan16807 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @10:23PM (#23056400)
Wait, so what do you think 1+2-4+8 is supposed to be? It's not negative.
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