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I keep a YouTube video in my back pocket just for this argument: [The Order of Operations is Wrong by mintuephysics](https://youtu.be/y9h1oqv21Vs https://youtu.

• jasonwatkinspdx 4y ago
  Yeah, there's a legendary twitter thread that removed all doubt for me. Thousands of teachers, professors, and engineers all confidently asserting that their version of PEDMAS is the correct and unambiguous one. Stuff like this is very difficult to change, because the conventions both global and fundamental... but we also shouldn't pretend like history happens to always chose the perfect convention. It's more a matter of we've just learned to live with the warts.