Well, is the implied multiplication technically part of the parenthesis, though? I've always been taught the stuff inside the parenthesis takes precedence, but

Well, is the implied multiplication technically part of the parenthesis, though? I've always been taught the stuff inside the parenthesis takes precedence, but outside is irrelevant because it's not technically "part" of the parenthesis statement. It's like how programming works: 6 / 2 * add(1, 2) This would obviously evaluate to 9, because the "add" function would simply return a value and the rest of the statement would be evaluated from left to right. In this case, the first 2 is not related to the "add" function in any way.