On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 17:41, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I learned BOMDAS - Brackets, O (varies in expansion but always minor
> things you don't often see), Multiplication, Division, Addition,
> Subtraction. For some reason it's also written BODMAS, which has the
> exact same meaning (since multiplication and division have the same
> precedence) but is harder to pronounce. PEMDAS uses "parentheses"
> instead of "brackets" (so it's probably an American English vs British
> English thing), and "exponentiation" in place of the first vowel.

This is the most interesting thing in the whole discussion, IMHO.
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