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[Dannyalcatraz]

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If I pretend she’s a walrus, should I boop her tusks?

 

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yes

 

[Aeson]

They did such a great job treating my sister's high BP, it went too low. She fell out going to the bathroom. They're keeping her another night.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That can happen. I was in the hospital recovering from ACL/MCL repair surgery, and my BP skyrocketed into the 190s due to pain induced by the knee-flexing Machine they had me in. So they tried me on a sublingual dose of a med that tasted of chocolate. It chopped 100 points off my BP in under an hour, and I passed right the hell out. Fortunately, I was already lying in a hospital bed...

 

[Aeson]

8÷2(2+2)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

...is 1

 

[Aeson]

Or is it?

 

[Aeson]

It can also be solved to =16. 8÷2=4×4=16

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproj...ience/math-equation-pedmas-bemdas-bedmas.html

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Interesting.

I’m not going to gainsay the mathematician, but I was never taught either acronym, or the left to right convention.

What I was taught was that, the number in front of the parenthetical always applies to the parenthetical. Ditto an exponent, FWIW.) IOW, X(N) is always calculated as a single number first, X times N. Then, if you see something like the problem posited, you read it like a fraction: 8/2(2+2). That can’t be solved as 16, just as 1.

To get 16 out of the 8÷2(2+2) equation, you’d have to read it as (8÷2)(2+2), but that would violate the rule of grouping the parenthetical with its multiplier.