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Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence tha
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Richard M. Stallman |
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Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:11:44 -0400 |
There's no need to change the longstanding defaults, because it would break
things. You already have a knob you can tweak if you think that "2 a / 3 b"
should multiply by b, rather than divide by it. That's a personal choice.
Frankly, I'd never touch that knob, because it looks to me like it should
divide by b.
I agree completely -- in that case, it is natural for b to go in the
denominator.
The same is true for 1 / 2 * 1000: the meaning of 1/2000 is more
natural, mathematically.
What Calc does now is clearly correct.
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, (continued)
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Randal L. Schwartz, 2008/09/08
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/08
- Re: bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Jay Belanger, 2008/09/08
- Re: bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/08
- Re: bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/09
- Re: bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Francis Litterio, 2008/09/09
- Re: bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Ulrich Mueller, 2008/09/09
- Re: bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/09
- Re: bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Leo, 2008/09/30
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/08
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division,
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- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/09
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/09
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/09
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/08
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Jay Belanger, 2008/09/07
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/07
- Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/07