"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
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> Think of the problem of surface area of a 3d solid. Hence multiplication
> operations should be "groups" when figuring out the order of operations.
It
> gets progressively more obscure, but I think a similar arument can be made
for
> all precedences.

Well, yes, but obscure is the important point. Okay, you might be able to
make a clear arguement for * over + but what about - and + or / and * ?
There maybe an arguement, but it isn't a clear one. However, any arguement
that says 2*3 is not 6 is plainly batty.

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