Priority or the right to come first; the order in which things are ranked by importance.
From Latin 'praecedentia,' derived from 'praecedere' (to go before), combining 'prae-' (before) and 'cedere' (to go).
In computer programming, operators follow 'order of precedence'—just like multiplication happens before addition in math, programming languages have built-in rules for which operations happen first!
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