eli5: how did PEMDAS came to be? what decided this order and rule?

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like how does it make sense? why is it correct compared to just solving equations left to right? what are some scenarios that prove PEMDAS to be the absolute truth and necessity? @_@

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PEMDAS isn’t an absolute truth of mathematics; it’s just a convention for writing mathematics equations.

If we didn’t use PEMDAS, we’d be using something else.

>why is it correct compared to just solving equations left to right?

Because left-to-right is meaningless.

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