>>13493479It just depends on your background. If you are a code monkey or high school dropout or something, you are used to using pocket calculators, scripting languages like python, or programming languages. Consequently you will do (8/2)(2+2) = 16 because that is what your middle school teacher told you to do to explain how to use a standard calculator and make grading easier. It is also what python, R and other languages do and you roll with it because you are a programmer so you dont know much of anything, because you are stupid.
If you do a lot of math on paper you may just assume it is 8/[2(2+2)] = 1, because you are not a kid or a monkey and you never use such retarded notation as "8÷2(2+2)".
There is no good or wrong answer. Neither decimal (base-10) system nor infix notation are legitimate.
The real way to write it to get 16 is to use prefix notation as well as base 12:
2 2 + 8 2 / *
Which is just
4 4 *
Yielding 14 as a final answer.
