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[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The order of operations is different between conventional written maths, calculators, reverse polish notation, python, etc.

The notation might be different, but the rules are universal

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The rules are about how you interpret the notation, so that makes no sense.

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The rules are about how you interpret the notation

No, the notation definitions are about how to interpret the notation. The rules are about how to do the Maths.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

So if you have one "notation definition" as you call it which says that 2+2*3 means ”first add two to two, then multiply by three" and another which says "first multiply two by three, then add it to two", why on earth do the "rules" have anything further to say about order of operations?