PEMDAS is easier to say than PEDMSA but I guess you could do PEDMAS or BEDMAS (for brackets) and it wouldn't really matter. That's the way I was taught, back in the ice age.
Maybe I ought to ask my kids. I'm really not smarter than a 5th grader.
Or in my case, 7th grader and 9th grader . . . OMG, the 9th grader asked me for math homework help and I Could Not Do It. Algebra. Polynomials. ::
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