shouta wants to join

[applesauce]

wait grants cousin and ikandis former gf cousin both joined?

[Socks]

I will dominate all New Boyagers.

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

no one was excited when i got one new semiactive member to join 

also cool, i hope he posts soon

[Amethyst]

Those antibot measures are really confusing I was pretty sure that 5 - 2 + 1 = 2 but it kept saying that I was wrong.

[Thyme]

Those antibot measures are really confusing I was pretty sure that 5 - 2 + 1 = 2 but it kept saying that I was wrong.

rofl

[Daddy]

Those antibot measures are really confusing I was pretty sure that 5 - 2 + 1 = 2 but it kept saying that I was wrong.

(5-2) + 1

Not 5-(2+1)

[ME##]

no one was excited when i got one new semiactive member to join 

also cool, i hope he posts soon

yes we were

[FAMY2]

(5-2) + 1

Not 5-(2+1)

But addition is always done first.   

[Thyme]

But addition is always done first.  

what no

additions and substractions are on the same level of priority (the last one)

[bluaki]

what no

additions and substractions are on the same level of priority (the last one)

It surprises me how often I have to explain exactly this to people

I guess the mnemonic "PEMDAS" makes people think "MDAS" are exactly in that order

[Amethyst]

They aren't in that order? :s

[bluaki]

They aren't in that order? :s

Addition and subtraction share the same priority and are evaluated left-to-right
Multiplication and division share the same priority and are evaluated left-to-right: "6 / 2 * 3" is equal to 9, not 1

and "PEMDAS" is also an oversimplification that excludes some things like negative sign, which has lower priority than exponentiation, making -4² = -16 although (-4)² = +16

[Thyme]

like negative sign, which has lower priority than exponentiation, making -4² = -16 although (-4)² = +16

oh wow, i had forgotten about that one

[bluaki]

oh wow, i had forgotten about that one

I once programmed a math calculator/parser and that particular rule took extra effort to evaluate correctly

I even implemented non-parenthesized functions, which are very rarely supported by those kind of programs and have somewhat unique priority like in "sqrt 8*2^3 + 1"

Also, unlike the other operations, exponentiation is evaluated right-to-left, so "2^3^2" usually should be evaluated like "2^(3^2)" (512) rather than "(2^3)^2" (64)

[Amethyst]

Addition and subtraction share the same priority and are evaluated left-to-right
Multiplication and division share the same priority and are evaluated left-to-right: "6 / 2 * 3" is equal to 9, not 1

and "PEMDAS" is also an oversimplification that excludes some things like negative sign, which has lower priority than exponentiation, making -4² = -16 although (-4)² = +16

so after E everything has the same priority?