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From: gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Dumb Question
Message-ID: <3196@brl-vgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 10:07:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  3 10:07:21 1984
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The tradition is to make exponentiation right-associative so that
	a ^ b ^ c
is the same as
	a ^ ( b ^ c ).
A little thought should make clear why left-associativity would not
be as useful a convention.