And now I am getting downvoted for asking an honest question

Welcome to programming.dev! 😂I've had the same happen (technical issue, looking for a solution or workaround, get downvoted). I take it as "I'm not interested in this - don't ever show me anything about this again" - well, just scroll on by then, not hard. 🙄

Pascal was the first real language I learned (after basic)

Same. Taught myself some Basic in high school (first on a school computer, then we got a computer at home), learnt Pascal in 1st year Uni (programming basics - wrote a bunch of stuff for myself in Pascal for my computer) then C in 2nd year (OOP), and then Assembler in 3rd year. Later I taught myself (with the help of some books and courses.... and intellisense! 😂) C#.

My calculator says -2² = -4

That's correct

Unfortunately some calculators, such as Google's will ignore your brackets and put in their own anyway. You just gotta find a decent calculator in the first place.

As a Maths teacher, almost daily 😂

Calculate 8 ÷ 2a where a = 4. Then,

Calculate 8 ÷ 2 × a where a = 4.

See how in the first form a is implied to be part of the fraction where in the second it isn’t?

It's not implied, it's explicitly because of the definition of Terms.

P.S. now substitute a=2 and you'll see why it matters.

A dot • could be between 2 and a and it would still follow the first example

No, it wouldn't. Inserting a dot (multiplication) makes it the same as your second example. i.e. 3 Terms, not 2 Terms.

In vector multiplication, dot and cross products produce different results.

This isn't vector multiplication. This is Year 7 algebra.

why wouldn’t it be math, especially when that would follow what you did with television

Because television is singular (a TV set) and Maths is plural, same as Bros. is the abbreviation of brothers. i.e. when abbreviating a plural you keep the "s".

Source?

Cajori (1928) for starters, plus any old Year 7 Maths textbook, any era (we know from Lennes letter that textbooks were already doing this in 1917).

Yeah, didn't think that came from any textbook.

Yes, it's Nick Cosentino from Microsoft.

I'm not sure what you mean about embedding a browser - do you mean writing your UI in XAML? If so I wrote a whole blog post suitable for beginners and up on how to write a MAUI UI using only C# Creating MAUI UI's in C#