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document.write( "He's a butt!\r\n" );
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document.write( "The priorities are\r\n" );
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document.write( "1. Do parentheses first, going left to right\r\n" );
document.write( "2. Do exponents second, going left to right\r\n" );
document.write( "3. Do multiplication or divisions third, \r\n" );
document.write( "   whichever come first going left to right\r\n" );
document.write( "4. Do additions or subtractions third, \r\n" );
document.write( "   whichever come first going left to right\r\n" );
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document.write( "3^2*4-6+(10-4)^3/2\r\n" );
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document.write( "We do the parentheses first, so instead of (10-4) we replace it with 6\r\n" );
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document.write( "3^2*4-6+6^3/2\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now there are no parentheses, so we get the first exponent going left\r\n" );
document.write( "to right, so we replace 3^2 by 9\r\n" );
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document.write( "9*4-6+6^3/2\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now there are no parentheses, and now the first exponent going left\r\n" );
document.write( "to right is 6^3, so we replace 6^3 by 216\r\n" );
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document.write( "9*4-6+216/2\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now there are no parentheses or exponents, so we get the first \r\n" );
document.write( "multiplication or division going left to right, so we replace \r\n" );
document.write( "9*4 by 36 \r\n" );
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document.write( "36-6+216/2\r\n" );
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document.write( "There are no parentheses or exponents, so we get the first \r\n" );
document.write( "multiplication or division going left to right, so we replace \r\n" );
document.write( "216/2 by 108: \r\n" );
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document.write( "36-6+108\r\n" );
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document.write( "There are no parentheses, exponents, multiplication or division,\r\n" );
document.write( "so we get the first addition or subtraction going left to right,\r\n" );
document.write( "so we replace 36-6 by 30\r\n" );
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document.write( "30+108 \r\n" );
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document.write( "Now there is only one thing left to do, to add those and get\r\n" );
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document.write( "138.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Later on, you can learn to skip steps, but until you get used to \r\n" );
document.write( "the procedure, just do one thing at a time and copy everything else \r\n" );
document.write( "over. If you do things in the wrong order you will get wrong answers.\r\n" );
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