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Excel concept
Order of operations
Excel evaluates parentheses, then percent, then exponents, then multiply and divide, then add and subtract, then & and comparisons. A leading minus binds tighter than ^.
Very commonDifficulty 1245 · Proficient
The shape of it
- In practice
Add parentheses whenever the order matters, especially with negatives and exponents.
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