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Originally Posted by masraum View Post
I still think that's a load of crap. Other than the one link, I can't find any other reference to that and I've never heard it before.
the hierarchy for the order of the arithmetic operations in 48÷2(9+3)
is
1) exponents which are all 1 so do nothing to simplify the expression
2) add inside parenthesis 48÷2(12)
3) multiply & divide from left to right 24(12) => 288
ans 288
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