UncleEbenezer wrote:kempiejon wrote:BODMAS as well as telling me to do the brackets first also tells me to apply the operations left to right.
Indeed. One might even mischievously add that the D comes before the M in BODMAS, regardless of being to the left of it in the example.
The mischievous one should then be reminded of the rules. BODMAS etc. are not rules, they are mnemonics. The use or misuse of a mnemonic neither dictates nor changes the rule.
Julian F. G. W.