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Help a newbie with a calculation result
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09-14-2017, 05:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-14-2017 05:51 PM by salvomic.)
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RE: Help a newbie with a calculation result
(09-14-2017 05:24 PM)Skfir Wrote: Hi guys. Sorry, I am a pianist, doing math for the sake of self-education. SO I am quite stupid in it. I enter the following in my HP Prime: -2^4 and it gives me the result -16, but shouldn't it be positive 16? because -2*-2*-2*-2=16? hi, is a problem of "order of operations" (see here). (-2)^4 is 16, instead -2^4 is the same as (-2)^4 that's simply -16. -2*-2*-2*-2 is seen with *implicit (), but not the power (-2^4)... Salvo ∫aL√0mic (IT9CLU) :: HP Prime 50g 41CX 71b 42s 39s 35s 12C 15C - DM42, DM41X - WP34s Prime Soft. Lib |
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Help a newbie with a calculation result - Skfir - 09-14-2017, 05:24 PM
RE: Help a newbie with a calculation result - salvomic - 09-14-2017 05:49 PM
RE: Help a newbie with a calculation result - John Colvin - 09-14-2017, 05:50 PM
RE: Help a newbie with a calculation result - DrD - 09-14-2017, 05:52 PM
RE: Help a newbie with a calculation result - Aries - 09-14-2017, 06:13 PM
RE: Help a newbie with a calculation result - Skfir - 09-14-2017, 09:06 PM
RE: Help a newbie with a calculation result - Aries - 09-15-2017, 06:08 PM
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