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GunmaN1905 posted...

First off, get some help. I can only imagine how obnoxious you are IRL if you're so condescending on a random internet board and in such irrelevant topic.

I'm not sure what tone you read my post in, but only the first sentence was directed to you, and I don't see where the condescension is. I've just seen this problem (or ones similar) all over the internet and see the same excuse of "in my country it's taught this way" or "back in the day before all this new math it was taught this way" while those are all wrong. The order of operations, conceptually, have been around since the 1600s, but the actual name wasn't until 1912. So unless your REALLY old, math hasn't changed.

But it doesn't matter since I'm apparently blocked. First time I think I've ever been blocked since I rarely post and usually just post information/facts, rarely my own opinion.

If you want my opinion, those people who think if an equation does not have parenthesis that means the order of operations does not apply...thats some crazy logic, and I've seen that way too much recently as these troll math equations go viral.