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    26 days ago

    It’s so we don’t have to spam brackets everywhere

    9+2-1+6-4+7-3+5=

    Becomes

    ((((((9+2)-1)+6)-4)+7)-3)+5=

    That’s just clutter for no good reason when we can just say if it doesn’t have parentheses it’s left to right. Having a default evaluation order makes sense and means we only need parentheses when we want to deviate from the norm.

    • It’s so we don’t have to spam brackets everywhere

      No it isn’t. The order of operations rules were around for several centuries before we even started using Brackets in Maths.

      ((((((9+2)-1)+6)-4)+7)-3)+5

      It was literally never written like that

      we only need parentheses when we want to deviate from the norm

      That has always been the case