Originally Posted by Jel

I'm staggered that people are applying scientific maths to a non-scientific maths problem.

There is no parentheses (sp) so you don't insert one (as a scientific calculator would do, because it obviously assumes it's a scientific equation - you cant add the parentheses as you type in the equation). The order of operation only comes into it when calculating scientific maths, so you go left to right, because this quite clearly is NOT a scientific maths equation, due to the fact there are NO parentheses.

People who are adding them in themselves are like the dumb fucks who indicate right at a 4 exit roundabout when they are going straight over - there is no need!

And I say dumb fucks affectionately ;)