Talk:Operand

Add biology meaning of operand? ~ Dpr

If anyone knows the meaning in biology or anywhere else, just go ahead and add them to the article. Thanks :-) --TuukkaH 19:04:47, 2005-09-07 (UTC)

Proper English?

In mathematics, an operand is the object of a mathematical operation, is a quantity operated on.

I'm not a native speaker, but this sentence seems off. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.153.139.153 (talk) 12:54, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

That third thing

3 + 6 = 9 Here '+' is the operator and '3' and '6' are the operands.

And what is 9 called? Resultand? --Abdull (talk) 11:34, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey, Adbull. 9 is called the sum of the addend, 3 and 6.

An addend is any of a set of numbers to be added. (American Heritage Dictionary)

(Math-adjustor (talk) 15:12, 12 September 2009 (UTC))

Okay. And generally, when not talking about addition but some general operation, what is the result of such generic operation called? Sum would not be appropriate in all cases. --Abdull (talk) 09:14, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

The result of an operation is called the result. If the result is a vector etc, you might say 'resultant vector'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.89.1.33 (talk) 02:58, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, that is completely wrong. 3 and 6 are the operands, + is the operator (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Operand.html). 74.167.252.158 (talk) 17:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Removed that whole first section. Seems out of place and is wrong (The first half anyways). 74.167.252.158 (talk) 17:30, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Order of operations

It seems a bit odd to me that this page has such a large section explaining the order of operations, when order of operations has its own article. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 05:58, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

It seemed odd to me too after I went ahead and wrote. It really is out of place. If you want to delete it and add it to the "order of operations" article, please go ahead and do so. On the other hand, it is another explaination that might help a person get grounded in "order of operation". 72.149.40.6 (talk) 22:44, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Correctness of PEMDAS explanation

I disagree with the given example for the PEMDAS section:

In a mathematical expression, the order of operation is carried out from left to right.
Start with the left most value and seek the first operation to be carried out
in accordance with the order specified above (i.e., start with parentheses and end with subtraction).

This would produce a wrong result if certain operations are not grouped - Multiplication and Division being the first group, and Addition and Subtraction the second. Consider: 4+2-3+1. -- Jokes Free4Me (talk) 15:16, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

PEMDAS is the reason schoolkids make mistakes when calculating value of expressions. It should be banned, IMO. Mikus (talk) 23:18, 22 December 2016 (UTC)