Re: kcalc math bug?

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Craig Dickson (crdic@pacbell.net) spake thusly:
> begin  Vincent Lefevre  quotation:
> 
> > In fact, you don't need parentheses for sumple expressions like the
> > above one:
> >
> > 1+2*3= gives 7
> > 1+2=*3= gives 9
>
> Fair enough. So perhaps the distinction is whether or not the calculator
> is designed to automatically provide a running total.

Heh. Mine gives an error 
1+2*
   ^--- here -- an interesting way of solving precedence
problem. There's an M+ key if you want to keep a running 
total. Ohterwise you have to pop the result off the stack
after every operation. Quite reasonable, if you think
about it.

It's a canon f 402.

Dima
-- 
"Mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of
entities."                                        -- corollary to Occam's Razor


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