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> It also adds a significant amount of noise for 99% of the cases, for no value since any schoolchild past 12 or so has integrated the precedence rules.

As all the viral "Only 25% of people got this right" stuff that pops up from time to time proves: No they haven't.

Also since we're rarely writing equations composed entirely of single digit numeric literals and are using reasonable variable names, the percentage of characters overhead and therefore noisiness of using brackets is much less than in the short examples being thrown around.



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