why in algebra class they teach the order of operations (PEMDAS) in that order. Is this just an arbitrary standard everyone agreed on or was it the result of higher math only making sense when equations are done in that order?

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The “bigger” operations go first. Parenthesis are the exception, they always go first, but, for example, X^Y is a much more dynamic curve than X times Y which is more dynamic than X + Y.