TI BA II Plus Order of Operations (I'm dumb)

Water Cooler
#1

Am I the only Level III idiot that didn’t know (until right now) the TI BA II Plus wasn’t set up to do order of operations properly? I literally can’t believe it. Imagine how many things I got wrong over the years because of this! LOLOL

#2

Probably not.

I have such a calculator, though I never use it; I grew up on the HP 12C.

That said, my TI has parentheses.

#3

The BAII has brackets tooooooo!!! :+1:

#4

I never used the brackets I did every teeny tiny calculation one step at a time after writing everything down. I had some real strict math teachers growing up though that made me rewrite an equation every time after doing one small calculation.

#5

prob smarter that way. because if you fat finger something in a long equation you’re more likely to notice