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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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.. > >