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Whats your such opinion (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 11 months ago by cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There is another example where the pemdas is even better covered than a simple parenthetical multiplication, but the answer there is the same: It's the arbitrary syntax, not the math rules.

You guys are both correct. It's 16 and the problem is a syntax that implies a wrong order of operations. The syntax isn't wrong, either, just implicative in your example and seemingly arbitrary in the other example I wish I remembered.