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Originally Posted by Bill Verburg
that is another great discriminator between those that paid attention and those that didn't
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Right, and starting a sentence with capitalization, and ending with a period, is another great discriminator between those that paid attention and those that didn't.
Clearly some here are SO myopic on THE RULES
(they learned in the third grade) that they neglect to consider how people actually use(d) (or misuse) the tool. You can't simply conclude that a sloppily written eqn -or a historic eqn - or an eqn written for some programming- has followed the Left to Right rule.
Notation rules are not laws of physics. For quite some time multiplication was always prior to division.
Again, see
Wiki -Mathematical_notation Ambiguity
Esp read under the heading "
Expressions" and "
Examples of potentially confusing ambiguous mathematical expressions."