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Re: bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precid


From: Ulrich Mueller
Subject: Re: bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:26:53 +0200

>>>>> On Tue, 09 Sep 2008, Francis Litterio wrote:

> But we should be prepared for more bug reports about this, unless some
> means can be devised to alert Calc users about the precedence rule.

> Would it be in appropriate to append a comment to the result when Calc
> is used interactively?

I thought the problem (if there is one) existed only when evaluating
algebraic notation? If used interactively, calc is using RPN and there
is no ambiguity:

   1 RET 2 / 1000 *      is   (1 / 2) * 1000
   1 RET 2 RET 1000 * /  is   1 / (2 * 1000)

Am I mising something?

Ulrich




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