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Appendix A
Operator Precedence
It is important to understand that operators have a precedence, but it is not essential to memorize the precedence.
New Term: Precedence is the order in which a program performs the operations in a formula. If one operator has precedence over another operator, it is evaluated first.
Higher precedence operators bind tighter than lower precedence operators; thus, higher precedence operators are evaluated first. The lower the rank in the following chart, the higher the precedence.

 
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