re: Bizarre Math Question and Answer breaks the internet - Sorry if already posted

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People get bent out of shape about this with the whole left to right thing. It's easily interpreted as both answers, but you were taught to read math problems like sentences (left to right) in third grade, so screw what a math professor says. Miss Johnson taught me it was PEMDAS when I was 9, so everyone else is stupid.

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Wow. This may be the most absurd statement in this thread. Math is solved left to right unless superseded by exceptions (e.g., exponents) as we've discussed. The issue has nothing to do with the left to right orientation. You've failed to see the core issue, yet your statement is so arrogant.