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Hi everybody,
In vector spaces we define two operations, addition and scalar multiplication. Scalar multiplication is distributive over addition. This can define the order of operations in the vector space? I mean when we have an expression to calculate, we know that we firstly calculate multiplications and after that addition because of this fact? Or is it also a convention? Generally multiplication precedes addition and this also applies to expressions inside parentheses? (we also define that parentheses are calculated before anything else?)
Thanks
In vector spaces we define two operations, addition and scalar multiplication. Scalar multiplication is distributive over addition. This can define the order of operations in the vector space? I mean when we have an expression to calculate, we know that we firstly calculate multiplications and after that addition because of this fact? Or is it also a convention? Generally multiplication precedes addition and this also applies to expressions inside parentheses? (we also define that parentheses are calculated before anything else?)
Thanks