[Jprogramming] Order of operations

David Ward Lambert b49P23TIvg at stny.rr.com
Mon Aug 2 07:37:28 HKT 2010


Knuth up arrow notation for hyper exponentiation is such an operator.
Ken's paper cited by Roger predates this notation by 10 years.

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> How did the current mathematical order of operations (PEMDAS) arise?  
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> ...introduce a new operator in the chain + * ^, would it necessarily
> also have the highest precedence?




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