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These conventions exist to avoid notational ambiguity while allowing notation to remain brief. [4] Where it is desired to override the precedence conventions, or even simply to emphasize them, parentheses ( ) can be used. For example, (2 + 3) × 4 = 20 forces addition to precede multiplication, while (3 + 5) 2 = 64 forces addition to precede ...
Goodman's approach has been criticized by other researchers who favor a phonics-based approach, and present research to support their viewpoint. From this perspective, good readers use decoding as their primary approach to reading, and use context to confirm that what they have read makes sense. Good readers decode rapidly and automatically.
to express purpose, intent or result, as the to-infinitive can have the meaning of in order to, e.g. "I closed the door [in order] to block out any noise." to characterize and adjective, e.g., "keen to get on" or "nice to listen to". Adjectivally, characterizing a noun, e.g. "a request to see someone" or "the method to use."
Indeed, in Jech's book, which is a common reference for set theorists, an enumeration is defined to be exactly this. Therefore, in order to avoid ambiguity, one may use the term finitely enumerable or denumerable to denote one of the corresponding types of distinguished countable enumerations.
Mr. Swordfish argues that, since this is an elementary article we do not need to limit "operation" to the mathematical meaning. We can use the dictionary meaning. But the title of the article uses "operations" in the mathematical meaning, not the dictionary meaning, and so the article should do the same.
Outlines can be presented as a work's table of contents, but they can also be used as the body of a work. The Outline of Knowledge from the 15th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is an example of this. Wikipedia includes outlines that summarize subjects (for example, see Outline of chess, Outline of Mars, and Outline of knowledge).
In Political science and Decision theory, order relations are typically used in the context of an agent's choice, for example the preferences of a voter over several political candidates. x ≺ y means that the voter prefers candidate y over candidate x. x ~ y means the voter is indifferent between candidates x and y.
A loaded question is a form of complex question that contains a controversial assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt). [1]Such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool: the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner's agenda. [2]