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Order of operations - what is 6÷2(1+2) ?
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12-07-2018, 12:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-07-2018 12:44 AM by cdmackay.)
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RE: Order of operations - what is 6÷2(1+2) ?
(12-07-2018 12:03 AM)Leviset Wrote: The answer is 1 The point was, I think: why isn't the answer 9, which the normal rules of operator precedence seem to imply? The video claims that taking everything after the ➗ as the denominator has been obsolete for 100 years, and that current practice should evaluate the division before the implied multiplication (left to right). But the calculator result would seem at odds with that. Unfortunately, my video stopped playing half-way though, so I may have missed something vital 
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