>>11930757If not for a standard math convention, people would not be able to agree on what is written down.
Not without including the details of the convention used to write it down at least.
Why is it that you write words left to right in a sentence?
?left to right words type to choose i if wrong i am why
?so like writing continue to were i if ,down wrote i what of rest the reading bother you would
Could you without knowing prefix notation solve this?
+ * 2 8 / 3 4
How about postfix?
2 8 * 3 4 / +
They are as arcane as infix, if you don't know what the grammar of infix is before hand.
2 * 8 + 3 / 4
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pjj/cs212/fix.html 
