The Operation Tower

Posted on Sep 23 2019 by David Butler

I don't like BODMAS/BEDMAS/PEMDAS/GEMS/GEMA and all of the variations on this theme. I much prefer to use something else, which I have this week decided to call "The Operation Tower".

A diagram of the Operation Tower. Three stacked boxes with a dotted area on the left hand side. The bottom box has a plus and a minus. The middle box has a times and divide. The top box has an exponent carat and a root symbol. The dotted area on the side contains two shapes of brackets and a horizontal bar.

The titles of the five blog posts are:

  • The reorder of operations
  • (Holding it together)
  • The Operation Tower
  • Replacing
  • Sticky operations
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