04d Order of Operations in Java

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Order of Operations

When evaluating an expression, java uses rules to determine which operations to perform first when there are multiple operations in an expression, as in the examples below.

	x = 3 * a + 11 / 7;
	y = 3 * (b + 11) / 7;

The order in the operators covered in this tutorial is listed below.

Operator	Notes
( )	The contents of parentheses must be processed first, starting with the innermost.
++ - - !	unary operations
* / %	multiplication, division, modulus are done next. These are done in the order in which they appear.
+ -	addition and subtraction are done next. These 2 are taken in the order in which they appear.

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