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Mon 18 Apr, 2011 06:10 pm
Can anyone offer a link to website that shows all the rules of mathematical precedence?
Most will give the simplest ones: multiplication, division, addition and subtraction, powers and brackets, but I'd like a complete list for the 10 plus rules of predence, covering:
1. Powers
2. Factorials
3. Functions (e.g trig functions and operations mod, absolute)
4. Series (e.g. lim x->0 (1 +x))
5. Logical operations (e.g. not, implies, exclusive or, etc)
6. Set operations (e.g.union, includes)
7. Integrations and differentials
You can leave matrix operations and vectors out if you like (curls and complex maths functions).
Basically I'm only thinking of the messiest problem a 3rd year Uni maths student might have to parse correctly, say something like:
sin ^-3/4cos(2*2/4-1) 60^3/2! ^ 3.5 / 24 taking just a few of the simpler above operations into play.
Thanks all,
Matt