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Revision as of 20:01, 4 March 2008

Operators

Operators recognized by WeBWorK, in order from highest to lowest precedence.

Operator Prec. Type Associativity Description
_ 9 binary left Vector and matrix element extraction.
! 8 unary right Factorial
^ 7 binary right Exponentiation
** 7 binary right Exponentiation
+ 6 unary left Unary plus (indicates that a value is positive)
- 6 unary left Unary minus (indicates that a value is negative)
/ 3 binary left Division
* 3 binary left Multiplication
. 2 binary left Vector dot product
>< 2 binary left Vector cross product
U 1.5 binary left Union
- 1 binary left Subtraction
+ 1 binary left Addition
, 0 binary left List (vector, set, point, etc.) separator