02-05-2015, 01:24 AM
The UnDoug wrote:
Interesting. I've never heard that there is more than one "order of operations."
Yeah, there have been a few proposed over the years. Two that I recall would give totally different answers. The first would do each math operation from left to right and give the answer 42. The other would give precedence to the multiply and divide operations, then perform the additions and subtractions. Then the answer would be 37.