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Order of operations pemdas
It might be related to the order (some of) these operations appear on the hyperoperation sequence
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Is there a standard convention for interpreting ambiguous absolute value expressions?
As I was looking at your expression, something just seemed typographically off, and then I realized that it was the missing padding around the bars that you see when mathematics is well-typeset. This ...
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Order of operations pemdas
I don't have historical proof but the following explanation feels so intuitive to me that I'd be shocked if there were a different reason.
When you use multiplication and addition for simple real-life ...
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Is there a standard convention for interpreting ambiguous absolute value expressions?
I don't know about standards, but I read these things using a left to right, greedy algorithm. More specifically, the bars are like parentheses but you don't automatically know if they are opening or ...
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Is there a standard convention for interpreting ambiguous absolute value expressions?
If I want to have nested absolute-value expressions, I would use different sizes
$$
\big|x + 2|x + 3|x + 4\big|,
$$
with variations possible
$$
\bigg|x + 2|x + 3|x + 4\bigg|.
$$
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