The Only Way to Win Is Not to Play the Game
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-only-way-to-win-is-not-to-play-the-game/ [blogs.scientificamerican.com]
2019-08-05 17:38
When I became a math and science writer, I had no idea that one of the most common requests I would get would be to weigh in on order of operations problems that somehow go viral in some segment of the internet.
The real answer, the one I believe any mathematician, physicist, engineer, other number-cruncher would tell you is to make sure your expressions aren’t ambiguous.
Another take: https://danso.ca/blog/order-of-operations/
source: L