!x Logical negation ~x Bitwise negation ++x Pre-increment x Pre-decrement (T)x Explicitly convert x to type T Multiplicative x * y Multiplication x / y Division x % y Remainder Additive x + y Addition, string concatenation, delegate combination x y Subtraction, delegate removal Shift x << y Shift left x >> y Shift right Relational and x < y Less than type testing x > y Greater than x <= y Less than or equal x >= y Greater than or equal
by putting the fragmented parts in a series. Yet, as David Hume showed in the eighteenth century, there is no principle of causality in a mere sequence. That one thing follows another accounts for nothing. Nothing follows from following, except change. So the greatest of all reversals occurred with electricity, that ended sequence by making things instant. With instant speed the causes of things be an to emerge to awareness again, as they had not done with things in sequence and in concatenation accordingly. Instead of asking which came first, the chicken or the egg, it suddenly seemed that a chicken was an egg's idea for getting more eggs. Just before an airplane breaks the sound barrier, sound waves become visible on the wings of the plane. The sudden visibility of sound just as sound ends is an apt instance of that great pattern of being that reveals new and opposite forms just as the earlier forms reach their peak performance