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Yes. A square bracket is normally used the same way as a round bracket. Usually switching between the two is done to make things more ledgible

[(a + b) * c] * (d + e)

means the same thing as:

((a + b) * c) * (d + e)

([a + b] * c) * (d + e)

and so on.

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