> For a certain value of '"proper" [tm] rules of mathematics' that is
> certainly true. The trouble is in deciding that rules.

Quite apart from precedence rules, one of the "rules" which is
"universal" ([tm] again) is that multiplication is commutative.
ie A x B =3D B x A
So far nobody seems to have addressed why this does not apply in the
given example if the answer is to equal "1".


       Russell
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