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The acronym PEMDAS, which stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction,[22] is common in the United States[23] and France.[24] Sometimes the letters are expanded into words of a mnemonic sentence such as “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally”.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    PEMDAS/BODMAS/[your local variant here] is an important part of the grammar of a language that is surprisingly common and it may be useful to be able to communicate using it some day.

    This applies to more orthodox languages as well. You can often get by just fine and live your entire life without knowing any of the minority languages in your country, but there may be occasions where it would be really useful to be able to communicate with someone in one of them.