What is this "order of operation" cult now with math?

[Vtile]

(04-03-2021 07:32 PM)Steve Simpkin Wrote:  

(04-03-2021 06:47 PM)Vtile Wrote:  I just came across a two days ago with this '8/2(2+2)=?'

Well I had to say that I'm honestly really perplexed with the whole PEDMAS or similar religeaus people touting this order of operation religion. It seems that only thing that matters is this order of operation acronym and rest of the superset rules are thrown where light do not shine.

..But the expression is staged for trolling, but the last nail to the coffin is the fact that wolfram alpha is giving the absolutely wrong answer instead of the better "invalid formatting" than HP48 gives (as for a computer).

Yes. Either it should be made illegal across the entire world to write an equation like this or there should be an 11th Commandment passed down to deal with it. If for no other reason than so we don't have to have these endless debates about who is right.

https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-11...eration%22

https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-8982.html

https://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap...ead=246984

I see, I should have used a search. I think we should make infix illegal for whole world.

Which leads to my distaste of (basic) mathematics as subject, until found the RPN which made it logical and enjoy to use once again. Łukasiewicz were indeed right.