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Re:One of the Basic Math Rules You Learned In School Is Wrong by claudius on Monday May 20, 2013 @03:45AM (#5736440)
The problem is to prioritise addition over subtraction and multiplication over division rather than assigning them equal priorities and evaluating the expression left-to-right. In German, there is no ‘PEMDAS’ but only ‘Punkt vor Strich’ (‘Dots before dashes’?), i.e. multiplication/division (·,:) before addition/subtraction (+,-). Parentheses obviously still take precedence.

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