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Originally Posted by Minte
Don't have a stroke. It's not worth getting so worked up over. I am NOT being arrogant.
If I want to be arrogant,there are plenty of other things that I can be arrogant about. Taking a posture on a math gag I learned in the beginning of my career isn't even on the list.
Madison is in Wisconsin. I went to school at the UW-Madison.
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I just find it fascinating in your case. See Franck and Divy and those types not knowing the answer isn't surprising. They don't present as well educated, intelligent and successful.
Anyways, directly from the University of Wisconsin website:
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Chapter 0
Basic Algebra
0.1 The Laws of Algebra
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Order of operations. Parentheses are used to indicate the order of doing the operations: in
evaluating an expression with parentheses the innermost matching pairs are evaluated rst as in
((1 + 2)2 + 5)2 = (32 + 5)2 = (9 + 5)2 = 142 = 196:
There are conventions which allow us not to write the parentheses. For example, multiplication is
done before addition
ab + c means (ab) + c and not a(b + c);
and powers are done before multiplication:
ab2c means a(b2)c and not (ab)2c:
In the absence of other rules and parentheses, the left most operations are done first...
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~robbin/112online/UWCABook.pdf
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