[Bikkuri]

Lol... :D I agree 100%.. as a matter of fact, I think programmers see a side of math even math majors (let alone minors.. age included) won’t understand ;)

Bikk

[GingisK]

I started out earlier in the thread siding with the 288 answer because of the left-to-right parsing rule. Then I let myself get talked into the other idea.

I went back to the ancient algebra book; and, it didn't say a peep about this. All of the examples show a left-to-right parse given equal precedence. The rules regarding commutivity and associativity really do point to the answer being 288.