To be honest, I'm four years into a maths degree, and it's never been directly addressed. The only reason I see things the way I do is because it's a direct result of the way Group Theory and Real Analysis proves everything else BOMDAS/PEMDAS and the order of operations are never defined nor proved. Therefore is has to be, and evidently is, based on a non-standard convention.
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