Oh boy, thank you for that. That's a lot better than leaving it in confusion and ambiguity.

I'm satisfied that PEJMDAS is the answer. Strict adherence to PEMDAS appears to be a localized, time-specific phenomenon contained to ignorant North American teachers, and the calculator manufacturers they managed to bullying into abandoning a convention that engineers, scientists, and mathematicians considered so blisteringly obvious as to be too banal to have to explain. Unfortunately, this retardation seems to have spread to students taught by these ignorants, starting in the 1990s.

It's funny, because on social media the PEMDAS adherents are so cocksure and condescending about their certainty, when they're actually the ones who don't know that PEMDAS was only a Wittgenstein's Ladder shortcut on the way to PEJMDAS. The rest of the world and every actual professional who works with math is sniggering behind their hands.