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Then they're retarded. The simple fact is the people who got it wrong learned it wrong either by their own faults or their teachers, the simple observation of people here defending PEMDAS as a valid mnemonic and its usefulness only serves to underline it's effectiveness.
You know how we learned it? Please Excuse M'dear Aunt'Sally -- where my dear and aunt sally were said as one word to emphasize the importance that they were done at the same time.
Even if you DIDNT learn it exactly the way I did, it should be fairly obvious. Multiplication and Division are the same thing. Addition and subtraction are the same thing. People who fail to realize that are just bad at math.