[zeven7]

Chiming in as someone who has lived decades in both South East US and North East US. I've also never heard () called "brackets" only "parentheses". This includes in and out of programming circles.

I assumed the comment saying "parens: ()" was talking about US, but the replies seem to be interpreting the opposite.

[grouseway]

Never? You guys don't use the BEDMAS acronym in grade school for teaching order of operations?

I've only ever called them brackets.

[dragonwriter]

> You guys don't use the BEDMAS acronym in grade school for teaching order of operations?

No, didn't use any acronym for that in grade school, and when I did encounter one used in grade schools, it was PEMDAS, not BEDMAS.

[the_only_law]

> BEDMAS

Was PEMDAS for us.

[zeven7]

Yeah, never. PEMDAS for sure. What part of the country were you in where you got BEDMAS?

[2ICofafireteam]

FWIW, I did my schooling on the West coast of British Columbia in the early 90's and it was BEDMAS.

[p90puma]

BEDMAS in Canada (Southern Ontario) circa 2000.

[ctxc]

BODMAS for us...

[mathieuh]

BODMAS for me too, although the "O" always confused me, the "E" standing for "exponent" always made more sense to me than the O" standing for "[to the power] of"