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2024-04-04 16:32:44 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5B70E64624A96544D6FFDAE9AE552A37F9971E2C40AEF4ADA0084D5EB14471DC
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Original Note:
The order of operations applies generally, not just ‘in a[n electric/mechanical] calculator’.¹ The question of precedence was already known to Nicolas Chuqet in 1484.² 1. See e.g. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Precedence.html which makes no reference to calculators. 2. https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema031756mbp/page/n119/mode/2up; see also https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathsym/grouping/.
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