--- title: Basic operators, maths | daily.dev description: 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... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/basic-operators-maths-4qkotm5eq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Basic operators, maths | daily.dev og:description: 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... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/basic-operators-maths-4qkotm5eq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4QKoTM5eQ.png og:image:alt: Basic operators, maths og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Basic operators, maths **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · [@iliakan](https://daily.dev/iliakan) · 9 min read · 14 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@davidmphande** · 0 upvotes > 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”. > > An operator is unary if it has a single operand. 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