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Re: What is the precedence wrt Mathematica infix operators

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  • Subject: [mg82845] Re: What is the precedence wrt Mathematica infix operators
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:13:37 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Uni Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,

in "The Mathematica Book", Fourth Edition, page 1012

Regards
   Jens

congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello Mathematica UG:
> 
> I cannot find operator precedence documented anywhere. With the
> operators from Fortran (in the old days) this was always clear, i.e
> '/' before '-'.
> 
> I have been reading some code in the Trott Guidebooks which has
> constructions like 'Head @@ face[[i]] / order'. I can guess that Part
> has precedence in this expression, but what about Apply vs. Times?
> 
> Looking at the OutputForm shows that Apply has precendence. But,...
> 
> - Is this documented somewhere?
> - Do all Mathematica operators take precedence over arithmetic operators?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Regards..
> 
> 


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