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[page 107]
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When the hierarchy of operations in an expression is not completely specified by parentheses, the order of operations (working from inside to outside) is assumed to be exponentiation, then multiplication and division, and finally addition and subtraction. Thus the expression A + B/C + D**E*F − G will be taken to mean A + (B/C) + (Dᴱ·F) − G.
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When the sequence of consecutive operations of the same hierarchal level (i.e., consecutive multiplications and divisions or consecutive additions and subtractions ) is not completely specified by parentheses, the order of operations is assumed to be from left to right. Thus expressions ordinarily considered ambiguous, e.g., A/B · C and A/B/C, are permitted in Commercial Translator statements. For instance, the expression AB/CD is taken to mean ((A*B)/C)*D.
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The expression Aᴮᶜ, which is sometimes considered meaningful, cannot be written as ABC; it should be written as (AB)C or A(BC), whichever is intended.