Why don't we do it on the site calculator and see what happens
A girl puts the number 6 on the display of her calculator, presses the square root button, multiplies the answer by 2 and then squares that answer.Her calculator would be showing:
This is without hitting the equal sign.
sqrt 6 * 2 ^2
$${\sqrt{{\mathtt{6}}}}{\mathtt{\,\times\,}}{{\mathtt{2}}}^{{\mathtt{2}}} = {\mathtt{9.797\: \!958\: \!971\: \!132\: \!712\: \!4}}$$
Below is the answer if you do hit the equal sign as you go through.
6 sqrt = * 2 = ^2
$${\mathtt{sqrt6}}{\mathtt{\,\times\,}}{\mathtt{2}} = {\sqrt{{\mathtt{6}}}}{\mathtt{\,\times\,}}{\mathtt{2}}$$
$${\left({\mathtt{sqrt6}}{\mathtt{\,\times\,}}{\mathtt{2}}\right)}^{{\mathtt{2}}} = {{\left({\sqrt{{\mathtt{6}}}}{\mathtt{\,\times\,}}{\mathtt{2}}\right)}}^{{\mathtt{2}}}$$= 24
sqrt6 on this calculator is often entered as 6 sqrt on older calculators.
So it the equal sign is hit as you go through the question. Because it does so
(1)multiply the answer
(2)square that answer
The only way you can get a running 'answer' like this is to keep hitting the equal sign.