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Originally Posted by Cloud
not sure where the southern/yankee thing comes in?
Rather than relying on Wikipedia so you can turn around and belittle the poster for that, as above, I turned to Websters Dictionary, which defines brackets as:
"either of the pair of signs [ ], or sometimes < > used to enclose a word or words inserted as for explanation, quantities to be taken as a single quantity, etc."
parentheses are not mentioned.
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exactly cloud
and Big V. I assume that because, like the others who think 288 is the correct answer, based on the common assumption of bedmas, which HLJ points out, excel gives the answer of 288. Doesn't the financial/ business world trust excel to give the common( generally assumed answer) If the spreadsheet is going to go off half cocked and assume a notation other than what is written, I say, Cock too.
To get the answer of 2, a person would have to rewrite the notation using brackets. [ ]