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Your absolutely right sauoq ref: Oxford University

[ ] Square brackets
{ } Braces or Curly brackets
( ) Brackets or round brackets
< > Angle brackets

Purely practical. Try describing this expression down the telephone to someone having to say "left parethesis" and "right parenthesis" every time.

(((a + b) *((c+d)*e))**(f/(1/2)))

Okay you lot, get your wings on the left, halos on the right. It's one size fits all, and "No!", you can't have a different color.
Pick up your cloud down the end and "Yes" if you get allocated a grey one they are a bit damp under foot, but someone has to get them.
Get used to the wings fast cos its an 8 hour day...unless the Govenor calls for a cyclone or hurricane, in which case 16 hour shifts are mandatory.
Just be grateful that you arrived just as the tornado season finished. Them buggers are real work.

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Re: (vocabulary is important) Re: What difference do the brackets make?
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Dec 12, 2002 at 12:34 UTC
    No need for parenthesis to describe that expression. Just say:

    a plus b pause times pause c plus d pause times pause e pause all of it to the power of 2 f.

    Alternatively:

    The product of the sum of a and b, the sum of c and d, and of e, and that to the power 2 times f.

    ;-)

    Abigail

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      Again, this time without your lips moving! :)

      Okay you lot, get your wings on the left, halos on the right. It's one size fits all, and "No!", you can't have a different color.
      Pick up your cloud down the end and "Yes" if you get allocated a grey one they are a bit damp under foot, but someone has to get them.
      Get used to the wings fast cos its an 8 hour day...unless the Govenor calls for a cyclone or hurricane, in which case 16 hour shifts are mandatory.
      Just be grateful that you arrived just as the tornado season finished. Them buggers are real work.

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