What is the correct result?

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(04-21-2024 11:18 PM)Matt Agajanian Wrote:  Although, what would you say, for example, Russia’s space & astronomy divisions & headquarters use PEJMDAS and our NASA, CalTech, JPL use PEMDAS or is there a standard between engineering, medical, scientific discipline regardless of location or organization? What then?

NASA, JPL, and other scientific agencies conduct their business using computer software, not calculators, where operator precedence is determined by the software used.

Note that there are many more operators than + - * / (e.g., logical, relational operators and more), so PEMDAS vs PEJMDAS is a false dichotomy. For example, both MATLAB and Python’s NumPy largely align with PEMDAS, yet their documentation both list extensive and somewhat different precedences for their many operators.