I always learned left to right order when doing /, *, + and -

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Growing up in Missouri, USA my teachers always taught left to right order with / * done first then + -. From my experience with Excel and the like, they also do left to right order.

I’m curious how many people were taught some other way when learning math.

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same here. I also learned that if there is a division and a multiplication you have to do them from left to right. Same for + and -
I never learned abbreviations like bodmas but to me it sounds like division (and addtion) precedes multiplication (and subtraction). Instead it should be looked at something like this bo(dm)(as)

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No it’s division and multiplication are done equally but in left to right order.

2 / 2 * 4 = 4 whereas
2 * 2 / 4 = 1

as these are left to right order. Addition and subtraction are equal but done left to right.

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Should be the way C# handles things, too.

I think the important things to remember in order of operations are:

  1. everything Jenny_A said above
  2. When evaluating logical operators, && is resolved before ||
  3. x++ is resolved before any other math.
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People always write brackets around the numerator and denominator, than the order doesn’t matter.

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Do they?