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Originally Posted by island911
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." |
I never claimed any expertise wrt typing and composition some on the other hand refuse to acknowledge their own deficiency wrt to math skills
just because
you don't understand the rules doesn't mean that they don't exist or are irrelevant or are confusing,
YOU just don't know what you think you know
It's so easy to sit there and snipe( it is after all the last defense of the ignorant), much harder to actually learn something and even harder to try to explain to close minded individuals what the actual procedure to to do something is .
I give up, the Luddites out there can continue to believe whatever they wish
