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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Operator Precedence and Associativity</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The following table outlines the precedence and associativity of operators. Operators in the same row have equal precedence while operators in following rows have less precedence.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> Operator</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> Associativity</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> ^</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> Right to Left</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> ! - (Negative Sign)</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> * / %</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> Left to Right</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> + - (Subtraction)</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> Left to Right</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">When using operators with the same precedence in a statement without parentheses, use the left-to-right or the right-to-left rule from the table. For example, in the statement 90 - 10 + 30, X has a value of 110, not 50.</p>
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