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Originally Posted by masraum
I've never heard that items OUTSIDE parentheses have priority over anything just because they are near parentheses.
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The fact that these types of threads go on and on for pages demonstrates that something that we hold as the epitome of objectiveness, mathematics, is as open to interpretation as anything.
Ultimately, math is a language. Like any language, there are multiple ways of saying the same thing, and depending on how precise you are, what you say can easily be misconstrued.