On 13 March 2012 15:15, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:

> AFAIK in my 'basic' school (6-12y) I was told that multiplication has
> precedence over division. In high school (12-18y) I recall them having
> equal precedence, and to evaluate left-to-right. And the wiser of te
> teachers discouraged writing anything that could be interpreted
> differently depending on whether multiplication was to have precedence
> (over division) or not, for instance by using the horizontal bar instead
> of the /.
>

Now I have an impression that when you write

6/2(1+2) without the '*'

then this way the multiplication is treated as a higher priority than the
division, otherwise equal to it? Or is this absurd?

Tamas



>
> APL btw evaluates strictly from right to left!
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