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PEMDAS in Excel: How Order of Operations Shapes Your Formulas

Ever wondered why your Excel formulas sometimes produce unexpected results? It might be due to the order in which Excel performs calculations. This order is defined by the acronym PEMDAS. If you're ...
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What is PEMDAS?

YOU may remember learning about PEMDAS in elementary or grade school as a way to remember how to solve an equation. The acronym often sparks a specific memory of learning how to solve equations, so ...
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That Vexing Math Equation? Here’s an Addition

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...
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The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet

Sometimes BODMAS is just PEMDAS by another name. And no, the answer is not 100. By Steven Strogatz Mathematical Twitter is normally a quiet, well-ordered place, a refuge from the aggravations of the ...