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= The Origin of the Order of Operations = King Phillip of Antarctica, who ruled from 1334 to 1379, was a king greatly interested in math. He especially loved the long and complex equations, but he hated getting the wrong answer. So, he had multiple mathematicians to check his answer for him, as he was always too busy to do it himself.

One day, during the Great Pie War of 1368, King Phillip was trying to solve a very long and complicated math problem. Coming up with the apparent "right" answer, he assigned several of his "calculators", the name he fondly called his mathematicians, with the chore of checking it.

Each of the mathematicians solved the problem, but each came up with a different answer. Phillip, now unsure about the skill of his calculators, asked each of them how they had checked the problem. They each showed him the way that they had solved the problem. King Phillip noticed they each did all the operations in a different order.

Suddenly, King Phillip realized that the order in which you did the operations affected the answers. For example, 1+2x3 could equal nine or seven, depending on if you multiplied or added first.

King Phillip was disturbed by this, feeling that there must be something he was missing, a hidden law that determined the "correct" answer to these problems.

In order to solve this conundrum, Phillip assigned his head calculator, Aniomunyas, to solve the problem correctly. Aniomunyas puzzled over the problem for three years, at the end of which he announced that the only way for him to find the "proper" answer was for everyone to do the problem the exact same way. He told King Phillip that, in his opinion, the best way to do it was to do anything in Parentheses first, followed by any Exponents, then Multiplying and Division in the same step, and finally Add and Subtract together.

Almost immediately afterward, King Phillip issued a decree stating that the correct way to solve long problems was the way Aniomunyas had suggested, but as penning it over and over during the writing of the law got tedious, he shortened it to the acronym "PEMDAS". Sadly, King Phillip was not the world's smartest king, so he also decreed that anyone who solved the problem incorrectly, doing the steps in the wrong order, was sent to the front lines of the Great Pie War. Aniomunyas disapproved of this new law, but could do nothing about it.

As the result of this new decree, almost 10,000 people were sent to their deaths at the delicious hands of blueberry, apple and cherry pie-in-the-face.

The few that survived the horrors of the front lines came home at the end of the War, and stirred up a revolt against King Phillip, causing the Antarctican Civil War of 1379.

After only about 5 months of fighting, the War ended abruptly with King Phillip's sudden death of food poisoning. Phillip, always having somewhat refined taste in food, toppled over from a standing position and immediately died of intense disgust the moment food from a local McDonald's restaurant entered his mouth. Aniomunyas was crowned King, as Phillip had no sons. He kept the Order of Operations the same, but repealed the punishment.

The Order of Operations was kept localized in Antarctica for over 100 years, until the region was overtaken by the Romans, who, by this point had captured almost all of the known universe, including Mars and the Moon.

The Romans immediately realized the genius of the Order of Operations, and, as they controlled almost everything, it spread like wildfire throughout the Roman Empire.

The account of how the Order of Operations were established were written down and put in the Library of Alexandria. Of course, the Library burned down, losing the record to history.

Discovery of the Origins of the O.O.O.
The Origin of the Order of Operations remained a mystery for over 400 years after the Library burned down, Everyone used it, but no one knew where it came from. That is, until 1827.

In 1827, Sir Thomas Flinn, the most daring archaeologist of the seventeenth century, was excavating a dig near Cairo when he discovered something very unusual.

He found a small box, held shut with a rusted metal lock. Following the very highest standards of 1800's archaeology, Sir Flinn smashed the box with a sledgehammer to retrieve the information held within.

What he found was even more surprising. Inside the box was an old scroll, which told of the kingdom of Antarctica. It included the history of the Origin of Operations!

Sir Flinn rushed back to England to report the finding. It was documented by leading archaeologists of the day. The parchment was placed in one of London's most respected archaeological museums, the Arsenal Football Club Museum, where it was displayed until 1828, when it was mysteriously removed from display.

Today, the exact location of the O.O.O. Scroll, as it is called, remains a mystery. However, the contents of the Scroll were copied down by Sir Flinn himself, and are available today. This article is proof.

Sources and Links
Jaci's Imagination was responsible for the text of the article.

https://en.gallerix.ru/album/Versailles/pic/glrx-248416498 <--The picture of King Phillip came from this link.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ropo2/hd_ropo2.htm <--The picture of the bust of Aniomunyas came from this link.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mcouglo13/17180142312 <--The picture of Sir Thomas Flinn came from this link.

Special thanks to Wikipedia for letting me write this article on their website.