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Old 05-01-2011, 08:01 AM   #96 (permalink)
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Wolfram Alpha would be a more acceptable God, but I guess beggars can't be choosers :P However, I refer to the "why google gives 9" argument regarding choosing the most common convention to solve the ambiguity. Calculators are programmed to add parentheses on a left to right basis if the user has not entered a sufficiently unique statement.
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