Words, games, numbers, and rules. Not a doctor.
The US has four time zones, and Canada is the same, right?
Well, no and no. Actually, let’s talk about the US first.
Most people in the US can name the “big four”: Eastern Time, Central Time, Mountain Time, and Pacific Time.
Continue reading “How many time zones are there in Canada?”Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. Order of operations. 4th grade math.
Elsewhere in the world, parentheses are called brackets, and exponents could be called orders or indices. So depending on where you went to school, you might have learned BEDMAS, BODMAS, BIDMAS, or something similar.
Hang on — is it PEMDAS or BODMAS? Is it MD or DM?
My first bone to pick with PEMDAS (and the like) is that on the first glance, it’s six things, when it should only be four.
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