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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.
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.