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To: gwilhelm56

What caused you to multiply before dividing? Multiplication and division (technically) have the same precedence, to my memory.


34 posted on 04/12/2011 1:46:22 PM PDT by MortMan (What disease did cured ham used to have?)
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To: MortMan

Post 35 explains it more succinctly than I could .. but that’s how I learned it.


52 posted on 04/12/2011 1:53:01 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (islam ... church of the Perpetually Offended!)
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To: MortMan
Multiplication and division (technically) have the same precedence, to my memory.

That is correct, so then they MUST be performed from left to right.

163 posted on 04/12/2011 2:50:40 PM PDT by GingisK
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