Math is not a democracy

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PEMDAS isn’t even real. It’s something we made up to make stupid people feel better about being poor communicators. I challenge someone to create a word problem that actually requires the use of pemdas where you couldn’t just reword the problem to actually make sense.
Creating fake problems by inserting ambiguity is ridiculous.
- Nothing about math is real. Every single thing about it is abstract.
  
  Nothing about math is real
  You spelt "everything" wrong
  Every single thing about it is abstract
  Representing something real underneath in every case - 1+1=2 can refer to apples, eggs, cardboard boxes, anything at all.
- The point is to allow more concise representation of problems that don't include words. If you're willing to be arbitrarily verbose, you can just add enough parentheses that you don't need the other five letters.
- PEMDAS isn’t even real
  Yes it is
  It’s something we made up
  No it isn't. They are proven rules of Maths arising from the definitions of the operators to begin with.
  Creating fake problems by inserting ambiguity is ridiculous
  There's no ambiguity in the order of operations rules
  
  Ok than I guess according to you PEMDSA doesn’t work. Or what about PEDMAS or PEDMSA maybe? Oh wait we made up that order cuz it’s easier to say? No way, color me shocked.
  
  Ok than I guess according to you PEMDSA doesn’t work
  Oh course it does, and I have no idea why you think I would think otherwise! 😂
  Or what about PEDMAS or PEDMSA maybe?
  Yep, they all work
  Oh wait we made up that order cuz it’s easier to say?
  No, you made it up because your country has a chip on it's shoulder about doing it the same way as the rest of the world. 🙄

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