Nope, never was taught BODMAS (though I got the right answer without using an acronym!)... but curiosity drove me to Google it.  The "O" turns out to stand for Order,...

FYI, here's another thread that includes a possible solution to the original question... I haven't tried it myself so I'm curious about the performance, but it looks pretty clean &...

This one seems to be coming up for me a lot lately... I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one stumped by it.

Another approach I've used is to...