Yeah, there's a legendary twitter thread that removed all doubt for me. Thousands of teachers, professors, and engineers all confidently asserting that their ve

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.