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		weaksauce on July 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How high school students start thinking about code While true, in algebra x=0 and 0=x are equivalent, the convention that the teachers teach is to have the dependent variable on the left.

_cbsz on July 6, 2009 [–]

I remember in sixth grade when they revealed to us that "3 \cdot a" and "3a" were additional notations for "3 x a" (three times a) and encouraged use of those notations on homework, I happily wrote "a3" as well because multiplication is commutative.

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