Luke Janssen

Embedded Systems

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An operator is unary if it has a single operand. The multiplication is said to have a higher precedence than the addition. The same minus exists in binary form as well: the negation operator, a unary operator that reverses the sign.

Basic operators, maths

Terms: “unary”, “binary”, “operand”

<p>An operand – is what operators are applied to. For instance, in the multiplication of 5 * 2 there are two operands: the left operand is 5 and the right operand is 2. Sometimes, people call these “arguments” instead of “operands”.</p>
<p>An operator is unary if it has a single operand. For example, the unary negation - reverses the sign of a number:</p>
