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It is ambiguous, "Two plus Three times Five" as a sentence reads and is naturally processed from left to right for a result of " is twenty-five". But to anyon
by tejtm 5y ago
It is ambiguous,
"Two plus Three times Five" as a sentence reads and is naturally processed from left to right for a result of " is twenty-five".
But to anyone who knows math (precedence), "2 + 3 * 5 = 17"
- jaywalk 5y agoThe order of operations doesn't change because the equation is written out in English versus mathematical notation.
- foobar2021 5y agoHow do you say and/or spell out parentheses?
- elzbardico 5y agoEasy: Take two plus five and multiply it by six
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- perl4ever 5y ago"There is no ambiguity because my context is the only context" I learned a few years back that lawyers will give you a bunch of "ands" and "ors" in an expression without any concept of precedence. That doesn't necessarily mean left to right works, either.
- ghaff 5y agoYeah. That's a trivial case but I'd still probably use parentheses). For more complex precedence operations I definitely would.