when you have to rearrange the equation to justify an arguement, you are doing what we reffered to as MalReasoning. Deiberately refusing to reason..
Areba .. LOL! , Not to derail the discussion, but the term `MalReasoning` has taken me back 12 years and given me a good laugh in the process .. You see in a certain institution (where I suspect you were) , it was construed that since `malfunction` and `malnutrition` employ the same mechanism to negate their respective nouns, it would be very much in order to describe a fellow/gentleman who purposefully went round the rules of reason to win an argument as one `malreasoning`. the prefix was appropriate in two ways : it not only expressed the force with which the gentleman (most probably in authority, a cop) went against reason, but his acute deficiency of the substance as well. interesting times those were. need i mention that concocting a word like `malreason` was itself an exercise of the vice.. :-) Back to BODMAS, am now lost for what i thought i knew the answer was. suddenly Gitau's argument seems right!