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I hate these math problems you see on social media. No one would write that way or code that way. It is ambiguous, and even if it weren't it is still hard to figure out. I think in my entire career I have seen one single line of code that took PEMDAS to sort out, I remember that line and the programmer told me that they were exploiting a feature of the complier to get slightly faster results. He was an annoying person