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  2. Order of operations - Wikipedia

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    [20] [21] The acronym PEMDAS, which stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction, [22] is common in the United States [23] and France. [24] Sometimes the letters are expanded into words of a mnemonic sentence such as "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally". [ 25 ]

  3. Operation (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Binary operations, on the other hand, take two values, and include addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation. [4] Operations can involve mathematical objects other than numbers. The logical values true and false can be combined using logic operations, such as and, or, and not. Vectors can be added and subtracted. [5]

  4. Talk:Order of operations - Wikipedia

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    The standards include authoritative answers to some of the questions and ambiguities, for instance 80000-2-(9.6) states that '÷' "should not be used" for division (see division sign) and 80000-1 (7.1.3) states that the solidus "shall not be followed by a multiplication sign or a division sign on the same line unless parentheses are inserted to ...

  5. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    PEMDAS Please - Parenthesis Excuse - Exponents My - Multiplication Dear - Division Aunt - Addition Sally - Subtraction In the UK, the phrase BIDMAS is used instead; Brackets, Indices, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction. [35] BEDMAS is more commonly used in Canada and New Zealand. [36]

  6. List of acronyms: P - Wikipedia

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    PEMDAS - The order of operations in math (Parentheses, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction) PEN (s) Peruvian sol (ISO 4217 currency code) (i) Poets, Essayists and Novelists, the original meaning of the initialism of the organization now known as PEN International; PolyEthylene Naphthalate

  7. Field (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The English term "field" was introduced by Moore (1893). [21] By a field we will mean every infinite system of real or complex numbers so closed in itself and perfect that addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of any two of these numbers again yields a number of the system. —

  8. What's in our names? How our streets and landmarks tell our ...

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    The Sealey Elementary Math and Science Magnet School, on Allen Road near the Tallahassee Mall, was originally at 234 E. Seventh Ave. — now the home of the Tallahassee Police Department.

  9. Division (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The simplest way of viewing division is in terms of quotition and partition: from the quotition perspective, 20 / 5 means the number of 5s that must be added to get 20. In terms of partition, 20 / 5 means the size of each of 5 parts into which a set of size 20 is divided. For example, 20 apples divide into five groups of four apples, meaning ...