On: The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019)

[grouseway]

Never? You guys don't use the BEDMAS acronym in grade school for teaching order of operations?

I've only ever called them brackets.

[dragonwriter → grouseway]

> You guys don't use the BEDMAS acronym in grade school for teaching order of operations?

No, didn't use any acronym for that in grade school, and when I did encounter one used in grade schools, it was PEMDAS, not BEDMAS.

[the_only_law → grouseway]

> BEDMAS

Was PEMDAS for us.

[zeven7 → grouseway]

Yeah, never. PEMDAS for sure. What part of the country were you in where you got BEDMAS?

[2ICofafireteam → zeven7]

FWIW, I did my schooling on the West coast of British Columbia in the early 90's and it was BEDMAS.

[p90puma → grouseway]

BEDMAS in Canada (Southern Ontario) circa 2000.

[ctxc → grouseway]

BODMAS for us...

[mathieuh → ctxc]

BODMAS for me too, although the "O" always confused me, the "E" standing for "exponent" always made more sense to me than the O" standing for "[to the power] of"