(Holding it together)

Last week, I helped quite a few students from International Financial Institutions and Markets with their annuity calculations, which involve quite detailed stuff. One of the more important problems was about how the calculator interprets what they type into it, which is really in essence about the order of operations.

You can read the rest of this blog post, and the other posts in the series across the years, in PDF form here.

The titles of the five blog posts are:

• The reorder of operations
• (Holding it together)
• The Operation Tower
• Replacing
• Sticky operations