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Old 04-29-2011, 03:28 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine View Post
To be honest, I'm four years into a maths degree, and it's never been directly addressed. The only reason I see things the way I do is because it's a direct result of the way Group Theory and Real Analysis proves everything else BOMDAS/PEMDAS and the order of operations are never defined nor proved. Therefore is has to be, and evidently is, based on a non-standard convention.
It seems like some of the things you've learned basically refute things taught in high schools. Would you say that's true?

edit: not really refute. But just off really really quick research it looks like group theory is concerned with having an expansive outlook such that one term can equal different things, depending on how you look at it. I feel like there should be some sort of hint in high school math that what we're learning is not the only applicable method.

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