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Casio anomaly or gremlin or bug...
09-05-2017, 03:58 AM (This post was last modified: 09-05-2017 12:18 PM by John Cadick.)
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RE: Casio anomaly or gremlin or bug...
(09-05-2017 02:26 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  Bottom line: this notation is ambiguous. Therefore it should simply be avoided, which is why HP's RPL and Prime's CAS don't allow it.

Joe: you have hit on one of my pet peeves. I have been seeing more and more flame wars on the internet (not in the museum forum) about the correct evaluation of a poorly written or ambiguous expression.

The so-called standard precedence cannot be used on very complicated expressions and sometimes on simpler expressions like this one. We have been blessed with two very powerful tools that should always be used in these types of problems. To wit: parentheses and RPN.

Rant off/

John
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RE: Casio anomaly or gremlin or bug... - John Cadick - 09-05-2017 03:58 AM



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