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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, that’s why I was asking why 59% just assumed there were parentheses in the equation.

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I see your thinking now. I thought you might not remember that multiplication, division comes before addition, subtraction and were just doing right to left operations.

Didn't really understand how the imaginary parenthesis came in.