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Whats does pemdas mean

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Please excuse my dear aunt sally is a way to remember it, pemdas is parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction

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its a common technique for remembering the order of operations. The abbreviation pemdas is turned into the phrase "Please excuse my Dear Aunt Sally". It stands for "Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division, and Addition and Subtraction.
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