Priority of operations: Necessary or arbitrary?
We reflect here on the priority of operations, where an expression such as 3 + 4 × 5 is taken to be equal to 3 + 20 = 23, rather than to 7 × 5 = 35. In this example, the multiplication takes priority over the addition, meaning that it is carried out first, even though, when reading left to right, th...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25102541.v1 |
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