oh brother, it's this nonsense again. the calculator is right, modern software that works blindly left to right is wrong. this becomes obvious in algebra with variables
the distributive property is being murdered by retards who slept through middle school algebra and this will probably result in a plane crashing into a stadium full of orphans at some point
the distributive property is being murdered by retards who slept through middle school algebra and this will probably result in a plane crashing into a stadium full of orphans at some point
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> the calculator is right
I don't think I've ever worked with a system that worked like that calculator...
> the calculator is right
I don't think I've ever worked with a system that worked like that calculator...
@deprecated_ii For completeness. Though, w/e this is called (... polish notation?) removes the ambiguity.
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Exactly...
It's funny, that change that was added to remove ambiguity is now making internet insane, since half of people still use the other system :D
By adding another pair of parenthesis, we get a very different pretty print, the one you would expect to equal 1.
Also, I don't think I've ever read a specification that has a implicit factor operator. Factoring doesn't even need its own operator, since it can be easily represented by multiplication.
I would be shocked to find anyone, working on an important project, not using pairs of parenthesis for precise explicit grouping.
Bottom line, 6/2*(1+2) =/= 6/(2*(1+2)), on literally any system I've used for more than a decade, and it would be silly to try and change that now.