I need to state I am no mathematician, which, by light of the question I'm about to ask should be evident.
A friend of mine recently asked a group of us what we thought the answer to this simple problem is.
6 - 6 * 0 + 6 / 6
A bunch of us gave the answer as 7, though others came up with 1 as the answer. I came to my conclusion using the meagre knowledge I carried from school, from left to right multiply and divide then add and subtract. No problem, I believed I was right.
I posed the question to another friend who is more mathematically minded than I, who told me that you would just work it out left to right, giving the answer 1.
I am now very confused and would like to know what the real answer is!