BODMAS - you’ve never been taught this ?

Which is exclusively because we decided to do it this way as a convention, not anything inherent.

>the multiplication and division symbols strictly indicate that the multiplication or division must occur between the numbers on either side of the multiplication or division symbol

Because of the convention of the order of operations. If we instead changed that to say that addition/subtraction is before multiplication/division, then it would be just as valid to say that

2+3 x 4+8 x 7+2

could be arranged as

4+8 x 7+2 x 2+3

It's just a convention we agreed upon. But I prefer not to rely on it, especially while programming. Use parentheses to make things clear. Write (a * b) + c. Not a * b + c.

I still write parentheses when I don’t need to sometimes, but as I get more comfortable with order of operations it does make things simpler not to have all the nested parentheses in complicated equations.

I know so because its 100% just because we agreed on using this ruleset. Try thinking about your reasoning if we mixed it up and reversed the order of operations

At this point the mother cow is then put into a device the industry coined a "rape rack" so the farmer can stick his entire arm up her vagina to insert bull sperm into her. After a 9 month pregnancy in confinement she gives birth to baby girls who will be put into the same torturous cycle as her or baby boys who are immediately killed.

Starvation is triggered by hormones, which are released because your stomach is telling your brain it's empty and ready for more. This starts 4-8 hours after your last meal, always. If you interrupt these hormones, like some diet pills did, then you get "magic" weight loss without feeling bad.

But now you're damaging the brain, telling it to ignore basic survival signals - and the brain doesn't run on glucose, so it cannot get fuel from body fat - it needs your liver to create ketones from fatty acids, and when you consume fatty acids, you're adding calories again, which will allow you to survive indefinitely.

I feel for you.

I know what you're saying but I don't think so.

You my friend, are mixing cause and effect.

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damn sounds like that one thing about 160 years ago would cause quite a bit of political turmoil, i hope all of this was peacefully resolved in the senate and not in the deadliest conflict in the country's history

As long as the multiplication and division is done, the order doesn't matter on addition and subtraction.

The numbers that are added or subtracted within a given formula are not subtracted from the number adjacent to them. They are just added or subtracted from the overall series of numbers.

Conversely, the multiplication and division symbols strictly indicate that the multiplication or division must occur between the numbers on either side of the multiplication or division symbol -- so you can't just move those numbers around that are on either side of those symbols.

This being the case, it's necessary to first do the multiplication and division calculations so those operators work first between the two numbers on either side and not along with some other number that is added or subtracted.

Math is a language, and order of operations is simply grammar to that language. Some times the order of operations makes logical sense, like performing parentheses and exponents first. But some operations, like adding/subtracting, multiplying/dividing see to be able to work regardless if the order. I mean, we do get an answer every time right? Jist different answers. So, how do we know what the "right" answer is? Well, as I said before, we use order of operations in the same way we use gramercy to dictate specific rules in language to help meaning in written word come across without confusing the intent.

Every mathematical operations. Can be analogies tk a real world scenario. A formula that reads, 2+5x3 can give an answer of 17 or 21 depending on whether the order of operations occurs or not.

The way to see what's happennign is to analyze what the problem is saying. This problem is saying, im adding two apples to 5 bags worth or apple, each holding 3 apples. Or 2 apples to 3 bags of apples, each containing 5 apples. That's the principle of of multiplicity. In this analogy we see the answer is 17 and that it makes sense.

Addition and subtraction are a lower ordered operation because they deal with single dimensional operations. Single number of apples vs. Multiplication. And division which deal with higher dimensional math, grouping or fractions. You can't add two single apples to packs of apples containing multiple apples and magically end up with more than what you actually have.

This break in logic is what is happenni g when you add or subtract before multiplying or dividing.

I just tweeted those product images yesterday 😂😂😂

That must have been a fun passing grade to earn.

Of course, but once again, you're talking about weight loss, I'm just asking about the human body storing and using calories. Ignore weight in this scenario, it's not a factor. What I'm trying to figure out is why you'd go into starvation mode at all. In this scenario, the subject is taking supplements, a wide array of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and basic proteins, and they're drinking plenty of water. So they're not suffering from malnutrition or dehydration. They're also obese and have many pounds of fat storage (Barbieri weighed in at 207 kgs at the start of his fast) so they aren't deprived of caloric fuel; why would they go into starvation? Why would any bodily function slow down when it has all the water, nutritional needs and calories it has to perform them as well as it needs? And even if they did go into starvation, they still have to consume calories, and the calories they consume have to come from somewhere. Would the human body really just die of starvation while being completely dietary supplied and with an ample supply of calories still available to it?

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>multiplication is doing an addition multiple times.

Only for integer multiplication, though.

> I don't think this is just because we decided to do it this way as a convention.

It is 100% because it's decided as convention.

>BUT, the +4 and -2 and +5 could literally be anywhere else in the formula and nothing would change.

Elaborate?

Something that a lot of people don’t seem to realize, even some of the answers already here included, are that net worth does not equal just a pile of money like a cartoon character with a pit of gold coins or literal piles of money.

Net worth is how much everything a person owns is worth.
Including things like real estate, intellectual property, and companies.

For example, Bezos owns about 10% of Amazon. That’s worth about 90ish Billion dollars.

That does not mean he has 90ish billion sitting in an account somewhere.

An analogy that’s more relatable to most people is that by owning a car, it doesn’t necessarily mean someone has 20k in cash at any one time. Their net worth is at least 20k, but net worth doesn’t necessarily mean cash.

Most of the net worth is from those stocks that they own, like Gates with Microsoft. He owned a lot of Microsoft. So when Microsoft gained value, so did he.

So the ownership of these stocks would change (and likely be worth less since someone like Bezos dying would likely lower stock prices) but it just means that part of the company would be owned by someone else.

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