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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 ]
Agree that the definition subsection is not the proper place to introduce the PEMDAS mnemonic. The following three items do not have a parenthetical explanation and I don't think it's necessary to have one for the first item. Do we really need to explain what parentheses are? And if we do, the current version does a poor job of it.
In mathematics, an operation is a function from a set to itself. For example, an operation on real numbers will take in real numbers and return a real number. An operation can take zero or more input values (also called "operands" or "arguments") to a well-defined output value.
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Cancelling out is a mathematical process used for removing subexpressions from a mathematical expression, when this removal does not change the meaning or the value of the expression because the subexpressions have equal and opposing effects. [1]
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If you use notation that breaks this rule, like -x^2, then you force the reader to rely on learned rules like PEMDAS, which the visual cortex doesn't understand. Melchoir ( talk ) 16:35, 28 August 2009 (UTC) [ reply ]
I always comes before E (but after C, E comes before I) [23] [24] In most words like fr ie nd, f ie ld, p ie ce, p ie rce, misch ie f, th ie f, tier, it is " i " which comes before " e " . But on some words with c just before the pair of e and i , like re cei ve, per cei ve, " e " comes before " i " .