I literally just said I enjoy doing calculations incorrectly because I dislike the method of notation so much that I reliably and deliberately choose to misinterpret it every time.

On the extremely rare occasion when I have the misfortune to be performing a mathematical calculation, I take enormous pleasure in carrying out the operations exclusively left to right unless indicated otherwise by brackets, which is the correct way to indicate this. If you want me to do a calculation separately, put brackets around it or bugger off. It’s your choice, really

Thanks I take enormous pleasure in never doing any maths at all ever, largely for reasons like this 😌

I think this is very stupid for a number of reasons. Why is there an order of operations that supersedes the direction the operations are written in? That’s at best dim witted and at worst deliberately misleading. Grog write left to right. Grog read left to right. Grog do sum left to right.

There is absolutely no reason in the world why anybody should have to know that division comes before subtraction. That’s fucking insane, man. What is the point of writing things down if you’re only going to do them in a set order anyway? May as well have a big jumble of letters and numbers and symbols on the page at that point, like who cares. The whole point of writing things down is to express concepts. Can’t do that with any kind of nuance if you’re going to read it one way anyway, no matter how you write it down. That would be like saying you always pronounce certain letters at the start of words even if they’re in the middle. Completely nuts.

I’m only going to say this once but if I’m doing a sum and you want me to do it in a specific order, use brackets. That’s what brackets are for. Don’t expect me to do things in a predetermined order because I literally can’t be bothered and I will never care enough to do that. I’m already doing a sum so don’t push it, okay bud