Comment by cultofmetatron
1 day ago
probably the arbitrariness of it. PEMDAS is more or less burned into my brain at this point but its basically the qwerty of notations.
1 day ago
probably the arbitrariness of it. PEMDAS is more or less burned into my brain at this point but its basically the qwerty of notations.
that’s not even notation though, that’s a rubric for the order of operations.
The need to remember operator precedence is a consequence of the infix notation syntax.
It’s a tradeoff against lots of irritating silly parentheses.
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