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Originally Posted by Mark Henry
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Everyone should read that link, it spells it out really well.
Frankly, one of the comments on that link really nailed it:
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I hate this. No self respecting mathematician would ever write something like this, it’d either be (48/2)*(9+3) or 48/(2(9+3)) depending on what they were trying to do. There is no “right” answer because the problem should not be written that way in the first place. Instead of programming it one way or the other into a given system, it should return an error instead, telling you to stop being so stupid.
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