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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perform Order of Operations

Angus Eliott
Angus Eliott
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Posted by Angus Eliott
Angus Eliott
3,793 Points

Order of operations problem

am Doing a quiz on the order of operations and put in my best answer but it refuses it. have access to a computerized scientific calculator. How do I work it out?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,210 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,210 Points

You just need to observe the language's operator precedence and associativity to be sure you are doing things on your calculator the way the computer would. Here is a documentation page with a chart showing precedence and order of evaluation.

For example, if the formula was "3 + 4 * 5" the correct answer would be 23, not 35, since multiplication takes precedence over addition in the computer.