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Expressions, not equations
Authored by: kenahoo on Jan 31, '05 11:47:12PM

I hate to be pedantic, but "(8.95 * 97.3) + (7.14 * 2.7)" is not an equation, it's a numeric expression. Equations have equals-signs in them. When I read the title of this hint, I thought it was going to be about pasting things like "42 + 10/x = x + 5" into the calculator, which I assume is beyond its capabilities (though perhaps the hidden Graphing Calculator within it can do something with it).

Neat trick with Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/CalcEngine - now if it only had readline support so I could use the up-arrow to edit a previous calculation....

-Ken



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