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To: sm1th who wrote (40453)	3/26/2013 9:25:53 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

>> In most computer languages it would be 12. Different operators have different precedence and are not evaluated left to right. The * would be evaluated before any of the +/-. Without context the question cannot be answered, except that you are usually wrong! Actually, it CAN be answered without context because it was a math question and not a question of operator precedence in computer languages. In 9th grade math, one learns that absent groupings, multiplication and division come before +/-.