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What math operation order do you use?
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What we were taught and what I've seen a lot in the German speaking world was "punkt for strich", "dot before line" since the addition and subtraction symbols are written with lines and the mult/div with dots (โ and :).
The fact that parentheses/brackets are always top priority was taught separately (even before multiplication iirc) and once we got to powers/roots it was just quickly mentioned that they have higher prio than mult/div/add/sub.