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There are plenty of bugs that are well documented. I can't tell you the number of times that I've seen someone do something wrong, that they think is 100% right, and "carefully" document it. Then someone finds an edge case and points out the defined behavior has a bug, because the human forgot to account for something.
The other thing I'd point out that I didn't see in your blog is that I've seen many many people say they need to evaluate the 2(3) portion first because "parenthesis". No matter how many times I explain that this is a notation for multiplication, they try to claim it doesn't matter because parenthesis. screams into the void
The fact of the matter is that any competent person that has to write out one of these equations will do so in a way that leaves no ambiguity. These viral math posts are just designed to insert ambiguity where it shouldn't be, and prey on people who can't remember middle school math.
Regarding your first part in general true, but in this case the sheer amount of calculators for both conventions show that this is indeed intended behavior.
Regarding your second point I tried to address that in the "distributive property" section, maybe I need to rewrite it a bit to be more clear.
When I discovered this comment I went to read it, and yes, it's true you discussed the Distributive Property, however, what these people are talking about is The Distributive Law which isn't the same thing (though people often call it the wrong name), and makes the question completely unambiguous. You literally can't move on from the "B", Brackets, in the rules until there are no brackets left - the B is literally short for "solve Brackets" (every letter is "solve (something)"), and so anyone who does the division before solving the brackets has just violated the order of operations rules.