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If anything I'd say this is actually acting in favour of BODMAS because fractions are functionally identical to division operations in brackets, and therefore this practice makes it so that division always has precedence over multiplication.
Now that I think about it a little more, my maths texts all made very heavy use of algebra in Years 11 and 12, and among other things that helped to pound the distributive law firmly into my head so that I always think of a(b + c) as ab + ac. I guess that's the main reason I do implied multiplication before division every time I see an equation like that.
If my textbooks ever print a long string of shit that has division in the middle of it, they separate it off in whatever manner they were gathered in the first place from previous steps to preserve clarity of process, like
(term) * single variable * (stuff/stuff) * (4π thing)
where everything between explicit operands was something that popped out of one of your auxiliary equations and usually has some sort of direct physical significance in itself. And then for the boxed answer they'd gather terms and constants and display it as
constants variables / (other shit)
Which leads me to the previous point, that if you're writing it decently and in a way conducive to learning in the first place, there's not even anything to be bickered about.
Come to think of it, most of my texts don't run into it because rather little of it is scalar ops in the first place. Granted, vector ops have the same precedence as multiplication and division, but you can't exactly divide by a vector. If you run into this at all, it's all collected constants that you stuff off on the left anyway, and even if they didn't use parentheticals properly, it'd be immediately obvious from context what order to do it in because anything else immediately causes dimensional mismatch, and you already have a good sense of "X bigger makes Y bigger/smaller".
What's BODMAS? Is it anything like BEDMAS?
It just calls it Orders instead of Exponents.
people having anagrams to explain orders of operations always confused me
Either that order is so deeply ingrained in my mind or I just memorized order without a pneumonic device.
The only mnemonic I've ever used is ILATE
And pneumonic is about wind and tires, not memory association.
^Huh, I had forgotten that one existed. But I'll never forget [∫] Un día vi [=] una vaca sin (-) rabito (∫) vestida de uniforme.
UDVUVVDU? Is there something I don't know about Spanish that somehow makes that roll off the tongue?
It's for ∫u dv = u v - ∫v du, a handy equation for finding the solution to various integrals (integration by parts). The best part is that it means "one day I saw a tail-less cow dressed in an uniform".
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.
Ban Overly Dramatic Matriarchs from Acting Spontaneously.
(I just completely made this up; I highly doubt there's anyone out there who actually uses it.)
Please Excuse My Damn Aggravating Sexiness.
BODMAS is kind of inherently funny so you don't need it to be an acronym.
Yeah, your avatar is definitely Elesa.
Also, lowDEEhai minus haiDEElow...over low squared.
No, it doesn't look like Elesa to me.
For starters, she doesn't have those kinds of bangs. And Elesa's eyes are blue.
But, blond hair and headphones!
Who cares about eye colors?apparently it's someone from that toothbrush incest anime.
I have no idea, I just got it off of danbooru.
Besides, her hair is black now.
I thought it was the Vocaloid twin dude.
Oh, so it is Shinobu. I don't know why I didn't notice before. I guess I didn't really pay much attention.
Yeah, it had few enough steps that I remembered the order better than any mnemonic they tried to teach me
Nisemonogatari, or however that's spelled.
Infamous for a scene where a character brushes his sister's teeth in an extremely incestuous manner.
you know it's an animu because that's a sentence you can write about it
For the sickos who just heard about this and are so inclined to actually watch the (borderline NSFW) scene in question, click here.
why
why did you link it ;-;
you must suffer for thy sins
It's very well animated and directed. And it's certainly one of the more creative fanservice scenes this year.
Are you saying you don't appreciate true art?
Well, I like fanservice, and it's good art.
So I'm all for it!