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Re:The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) by zeven7 on Monday May 02, 2022 @11:01PM (#31243990)
Chiming in as someone who has lived decades in both South East US and North East US. I've also never heard () called "brackets" only "parentheses". This includes in and out of programming circles.

I assumed the comment saying "parens: ()" was talking about US, but the replies seem to be interpreting the opposite.

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Re:The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) by grouseway on Monday May 02, 2022 @11:57PM (#31244416)
Never? You guys don't use the BEDMAS acronym in grade school for teaching order of operations?

I've only ever called them brackets.

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Re:The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) by dragonwriter on Monday May 02, 2022 @11:59PM (#31244430)
> You guys don't use the BEDMAS acronym in grade school for teaching order of operations?

No, didn't use any acronym for that in grade school, and when I did encounter one used in grade schools, it was PEMDAS, not BEDMAS.

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Re:The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) by the_only_law on Monday May 02, 2022 @11:59PM (#31244427)
> BEDMAS

Was PEMDAS for us.

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Re:The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) by zeven7 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:59AM (#31245160)
Yeah, never. PEMDAS for sure. What part of the country were you in where you got BEDMAS?
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Re:The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) by 2ICofafireteam on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @10:53AM (#31249104)
FWIW, I did my schooling on the West coast of British Columbia in the early 90's and it was BEDMAS.
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Re:The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) by p90puma on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @06:54PM (#31254631)
BEDMAS in Canada (Southern Ontario) circa 2000.
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Re:The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) by ctxc on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:40AM (#31244696)
BODMAS for us...
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Re:The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) by mathieuh on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @03:45AM (#31245765)
BODMAS for me too, although the "O" always confused me, the "E" standing for "exponent" always made more sense to me than the O" standing for "[to the power] of"
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