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Arithmetic

Addition (top) and division (bottom)
Addition (top) and division (bottom)

Arithmetic refers to a number of operations performed on numbers:

  1. addition
  2. subtraction
  3. multiplication
  4. division
  5. exponentiation
  6. root taking
  7. logarithm taking

Numbers are represented using the numerals 0 ... 9. Operations can be grouped by parentheses. The order in which operations are performed:

  1. operations in parentheses
  2. exponentiation and root taking
  3. multiplication and division
  4. addition and subtraction
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