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 Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Which is to say, order of operations is well analogous to rules of comma placement. There's no way to prove the proper order of operations, it just comes down to what is the standard. And in this problem, there is no standard.
I'll defer to you on the comma placement thing.. I really don't know.. I've always used thing 1, thing 2, and thing 3 but was under the impression that ommitting that last comma is fine as well.
The point is that it's very well possible that exactly one math method is correct and both english methods are correct, or vise versa.. there's no real correlation.
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