@PatricksHillPrk Looks to me like people did for the most part want to clean up after themselves but then bins are full. More bins are necessary maybe? Or more frequent emptying?
@JP_Mc_C They have issue with lots of things, I just don't think 'bemdas' helps. For 2x^2 the important thing is that the lack of brackets means that the square only applies to the x - maybe since I never learned bemdas myself, I don't think in terms of it.
@JP_Mc_C Thomas Carroll listed them off in a number theory lecture one day, I'm pretty sure he was checking if we were all asleep - it took us a second too π