÷ could be a minus sign, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_sign?wprov=sfla1
Except that it has English text above it…
÷ could be a minus sign
No it couldn’t.
Did you check the reference? It says % can be used as a minus sign, not the obelus. Welcome to what happens when you’re next-door neighbour Joe Blow can edit Wikipedia.
Yes I did, on page 243:
It was employed in the Philosophical Transactions by the Dutch astronomer N. Cruquius; ÷ is found in Hübsch and Crusius. It was used very frequently as the symbol for subtraction and ``minus´´ in the Maandelykse Mathematische Liefbebbery, Purmerende (1754-69)
Maandelykse Mathematische Liefbebbery, Purmerende (1754-69)
You know the Facebook post is in English and from 2025, right? 😂
So order of operations is hard?
The issue normally with these “trick” questions is the ambiguous nature of that division sign (not so much a problem here) or people not knowing to just go left to right when all operators are of the same priority. A common mistake is to think division is prioritised above multiplication, when it actually has the same priority. Someone should have included some parenthesis in PEDMAS aka. PE(DM)(AS) 😄
The issue normally with these “trick” questions
There’s no “trick” - it’s a straight-out test of Maths knowledge.
the ambiguous nature of that division sign
Nothing ambiguous about it. The Term on the left divided by the Term on the right.
A common mistake is to think division is prioritised above multiplication
It’s not a mistake. You can do them in any order you want.
when it actually has the same priority
Which means you can do them in any order
Every one of these only makes me say “wouldn’t it be great if we did everything with RPN”?
