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Originally Posted by DARISC
"So the equation , in any case, never was poorly written in a strict mathematical sense.
It was written in a way that leaves it prone for incorrect interpretation of the order of operations... The incorrect interpreation is human error, it's not mathematical."
I agree.
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Dude! You're killin' me here. Look how these two things are written.
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Originally Posted by romad
solve:
16 ÷ 2[8 – 3(4 – 2)] + 1
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Originally Posted by Z-man
48÷2(9+3)
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They are written exactly the same, but you're arguing that one is solved one way and the other is solved the other way.
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Originally Posted by DARISC
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Originally Posted by DARISC
Yeah; thus the not far from 50/50 split in the poll.
Fun though. 
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Wolframalpha is doing the problem two different ways.
If you change it to x 1/2, it changes the result
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