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10.4: Be aware of a Calculator widget bug
I am most of the way through a 2nd year university course that deals with defining and constructing numbers, addition, multiplication etc. Our PEMDAS convention could have easily been different (say PEASDM), in which case you would get 1+2*3=9.
10.4: Be aware of a Calculator widget bug
quote - "Whoever built the first pocket calculator established a new convention for inputting equations, which is sometimes more useful, and often less useful. This convention was established presumably because calculators originally could not handle PEMDAS" |
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