prioriteringsdjävulen

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of prioritering (“priority”) +‎ -s- +‎ djävul (“devil”) +‎ -en (“the”), literally “the priority devil”.

Proper noun

prioriteringsdjävulen c (genitive prioriteringsdjävulens)

  1. A mnemonic image for the order of operations, where the operations and brackets (read from upper right) take the shape of a horned face.

See also

Operators and brackets

  • ( ) (“bracket”)
  • ^ (“exponent”)
  • · (“multiplication”)
  • ÷ (“division”)
  • + (“addition”)
  • - (“subtraction”)
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