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Precedence rules are mostly a formalization of the underlying basic convention that the operations whose terms are written closer together are done first.
by naniwaduni 2y ago
Precedence rules are mostly a formalization of the underlying basic convention that the operations whose terms are written closer together are done first.
- zmgsabst 2y agoMostly to make polynomials easy. But if we’re doing math mostly on computers, we should adopt rules that make writing on computers easy — not pedantically insist typing code follow the rules of handwriting polynomials.