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ELI5:How is the mathematical principle PEMDAS found in nature?

Multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction are readily apparent in nature, but when do we see parentheticals and exponents in nature?

Perhaps "mathematical principle" is the wrong phrase for the order of operations, but hopefully you know my gist.

Edit: There's been many interesting and though provoking answers. I didn't anticipate any of this. Actually, I didn't really know what to think (hence the question). I'm gonna go ahead and mark this one explained because I don't know enough about mathematics to believe any of these responses are insufficient.  Thanks!
gpt
It isn't. What we call PEMDAS is purely a convention, a sort of "grammar rule" for the language we know of as Mathematical Notation. While natural phenomena do follow scientific rules that have things like addition-behavior or multiplication-behavior, they don't require using a '+' sign or an '×' sign.

P.S. there's actually a *ton* of exponent-behavior in the laws of nature. One example is Newton's law of gravity: F = Gm₁m₂ / r²