As a backend programmer I use it all the time. As an example I use it to determine percentage of total. I use it for discounts and taxes regularly. Figure totals of an order.
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Sertou@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Or it simply could be that I haven’t needed to concern myself with the order of operations more than a dozen times since high school. Even when working as a web coder it was so seldom necessary that I can’t recall a single example.
The US education system was still pretty decent when I was in middle and high school in the 1980s, so we definitely covered this in algebra.
jhdeval@lemmy.world 4 days ago
titanicx@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I haven’t had to do this shit in 20 years since college. Literally nothing like this in my career path, I was shit at math in high school and college, so I didn’t even remember that there was a multiplication there since it isn’t explicit. Oh well.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
I guess some things just stick for some people and not others.
I can recall the order of operations from school. Can’t remember peoples name though. I left school in 1999. For some reason I’ve never forgotten all the damn bones and muscles in the body either but I only did anatomy and physiology for a year and now I’m a software engineer. Minds are weird.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Sadly, I knew PEMDAS, but I tend to use 0% brainpower first, fuck up bigly, and only then actually pay attention.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
We called it BODMAS.