👉 The term "precedence" refers to the order in which operations are performed in a language or system. In computer programming, for example, operators are usually evaluated from left to right, with parentheses being evaluated first and then multiplication and division (and possibly addition and subtraction) based on their order of precedence. In other contexts, precedence can also refer to the level of importance of an operation within a larger computation or expression. For example, in algebraic expressions, the terms are evaluated from left to