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I assume PEMDAS is Parentheses something something Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction?
Interesting. Crazy stuff. You think you know things, and then suddenly, turns out that it's not as certain as you thought.
E is Exponents. Juxtaposition or implied multiplication is something like the 2(2+1) in this equation. So PEMDAS treats juxtaposition as the same value as multiplication/division, so reads that as 2*****(2+1), where you would do the 6/2 first, but the system more advanced math seems to do would be solve 2(2+1) before dividing.
Which would basically treat the whole thing as a fraction, along the lines of
6
───────
2(2+1)
And I'm not an expert or anything either, I'm mostly going by what other people said.
Also, I find it hilarious that different calculators will actually give you different results. Some calculators use PEMDAS, while some give more weight to juxtaposition. The latter seems to give better results, from what I've seen. Funny story from one of the vids I linked, but American teachers are so obsessed with their PEMDAS mnemonic that they actually lobbied a calculator company to switch from PEJMDAS to PEMDAS. Meaning teachers of all people are trying to effectively write the rules of math around their own little teaching methods. That's a problem.
Eh, keeps them off the streets and prevents them from grooming kids, so I'm good.
In terms of pure logic, I really don't understand why juxtaposition would take precedence over multiplication (or division). That 2(2) would be different from 2*2 sounds crazy to me.