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Old 11-08-2011, 09:36 PM  
baddog
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Originally Posted by Linguist View Post
This rule was conceived as soon as basic algebra needed proper notation... which according to this guy is 1600's.

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I understand that the theory may have existed, but did they always call it that? I am pretty sure in the 60's we always used brackets.
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