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Is there a better/different way of indicating the order of operations in a mathematical expression - other than using parentheses?
Order of operations - parenetheses
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Number Nine
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Why? What's wrong with parentheses?
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Whether it's better or not is up for debate, but
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation
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Ah, prefix and postfix notation. I remember when I took an intro to programming class as an undergrad, I had to write a program that converted from prefix/postfix to infix, in Pascal. That was fun. 
manjuvenamma
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Number Nine! Nothing wrong with brackets. Just curiosity. When I studied OOO when I was kid 40 years ago, I studied different types of brackets and their order of precedence. Now, no one uses all these types of brackets, just ordinary brackets with nesting as needed.
Just curiosity to know if there is an alternate and better way.
Just curiosity to know if there is an alternate and better way.