"andrel linnenbank" <a.c### [at] amcuvanl> wrote in message
news:3D1767A2.B71AB835@amc.uva.nl...
>
> > > As a further note, precedence is always a difficult thing. There are
> > > even variations between countries. In Holland the precedence rules are
> > > that the order for binary operators is: ^ * / + - and none has the
same
> > > precedence. So 2*4/2 is 4 not 1 When something unexpected happens I
> > > always check precedence and use superfluous parenthesis, just to be
sure
> >
> > How could that equal 1? I don't see any precedence rule that could
produce
> > that result...it either comes out to 8/2 or 2*2. Or +-: 2 + 3 - 5 = 0
> > whether you do the addition or subtraction first.
> Whoops sorry, a more correct expample would be
> 2*2/2*2
> which is 1 in Holland. it parses as (2*2)/(2*2) and 4 in some other
> countries where they parse it as ((2*2)/2)*2
>
> Thank for pointing out, now I feel realy silly :)
>
> Andrel

Hello,

I'm sorry, but I don't agree with Andrel. I'm a Dutch teacher and I have
never heard
about this kind of precedence. The '*' and  the '/' have equal precedence,
so
they parse in the order of appearance. The same rules applies to '+' and
'-'.
If he had learned it this way, then that was wrong. Mathematics have the
same rules
all over the world!!

Greetings,

--
Jaap Frank

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