Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/'

[Davis Herring]

>> I expect the reason is slightly different: it's that the same rule is
>> used
>> for "a * b / c * d" as for "a b / c d".
>
> Exactly; the motivation was for the implicit multiplication, but he
> didn't want to give implicit and explicit multiplication different
> precedences.

For what it's worth, Mathematica (one of the few other programs with the
"implicit multiplication" operator) gives implicit and explicit
multiplication and division equal precedence: a b/c d puts d in the
numerator, as does a*b/c*d.

Davis

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