• Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    41·
    17 days ago

    Division, Multiplication, Addition, and Subtraction

    This is fucking so many people over… It should be limited - like Orders - to only Multiplication and Addition.

    Because division is the same operation as multiplication, and subtraction is the same operation as addition, and they have the same “weight” in the order of operations (meaning, you do them left-to-right).

    • 💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      It should be limited - like Orders - to only Multiplication and Addition

      Because you don’t want people to know when to do Division and Subtraction? 😂

      Because division is the same operation as multiplication

      No it isn’t, but they are both binary operators.

      they have the same “weight” in the order of operations (meaning, you do them left-to-right)

      And where are they going to do Division and Subtraction in the left to right if you’ve left them out? 🙄

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Because you don’t want people to know when to do Division and Subtraction? 😂

        Because division is multiplication, and subtraction is addition.

        No it isn’t, but they are both binary operators.

        2/2 is the same as 2*½

        2-2 is the same as 2+(-2)

        And where are they going to do Division and Subtraction in the left to right if you’ve left them out? 🙄

        Well, as I already said multiple times: Division = Multiplication and Subtraction = Addition, therefore they would be doing them together, left to right. As in: 9-3+2 would not confuse anyone who learned “Addition → Subtraction”, as it does right now.