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Parentheses are used as delimiters to group expressions and clarify the order of operations in mathematical expressions.

Examples

Grouping to indicate that a and b should be added before multiplying by c.

(a + b) \times c

Using parentheses to group terms in an integral.

\int_{0}^{1} (x^2 + 1) \, dx

Defining a function with a polynomial expression inside parentheses.

f(x) = (x^2 + 2x + 1)