Order Of Operations - Texas Instruments solar TI-36X User Manual

Order of Operations

The TI-36X uses EOSè (Equation Operating
System) to evaluate expressions.
Order Evaluation
1st Expressions inside parentheses.
2nd Functions which need a ) and precede the
argument, such as sin, log, and all R/P
menu items; Boolean Logic NOT and 2's
complement.
3rd Fractions.
4th Functions that are entered after the argument,
2
such as x and angle unit modifiers (
metric conversions.
5th Exponentiation (^) and roots (
6th Negation (L).
7th Permutations (nPr) and combinations (nCr).
8th Multiplication, implied multiplication, division.
9th Addition and subtraction.
10th Boolean logic AND.
Boolean logic XOR and OR.
11th
b
12th Conversions (4A / /
c
13th completes all operations and closes all
open parentheses.
You can change the order of operations by enclosing
expressions in parentheses.
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