Arithmetic

addition and division

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 should be performed, are:
  1. operations in parentheses
  2. exponentiation and root taking
  3. multiplication and division
  4. addition and subtraction

Related concepts

  • addition
  • division
  • exponentiation
  • logarithm taking
  • multiplication
  • number
  • numeral
  • root taking
  • subtraction

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