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[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Sorry but both my phone calculator and TI-84 calculate 1/2X

...and they're both wrong, because they are disobeying the order of operations rules. Almost all e-calculators are wrong, whereas almost all physical calculators do it correctly (the notable exception being Texas Instruments).

You are saying that an implied operation has higher priority than one which I am defining as part of the equation with an operator? Bogus. I don’t buy it. Seriously when was this decided?

The rules of Terms and The Distributive Law, somewhere between 100-400 years ago, as per Maths textbooks of any age. Operators separate terms.

I am no mathematics expert... never heard this “rule” before.

I'm a High School Maths teacher/tutor, and have taught it many times.