Comment on A - ( B x C ) + ( D x E ) = A - ( B x C ) - ( D x E ) if A > B + C + D + E

• Arkouda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks for being helpful. I am not sure how I mixed that up but for some reason in my head I was thinking “Do Addition then (should read “and”) Subtraction in order from left to right”. This is why it is a shower thought and why I am brushing up on my math. haha

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If it helps to conceptualize, you can always replace inverse operations with their equivalents:

    a - b
    = a + -b
    = a + (-1*b)

    and

    a / b
    = a * b^-1^
    = a * (1/b)

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