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10.5: Use Spotlight's calculations with Quick Look
Authored by: frgough on Nov 27, '07 09:41:44AM

Um, unless you are running a tape adding machine, in which case operations are performed as entered. Each press of the function key is the equivalent of pressing the equals key, with the equals key in this case indicating ALL calculations are finished.

So in a tape adding machine, you get this:

1+2 (interpreted as 1 plus 2 equals; waiting for next operation.

*3 =, which is interpreted as previous value times three, no more entries.



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10.5: Use Spotlight's calculations with Quick Look
Authored by: jecwobble on Nov 27, '07 11:26:43AM

I don't have an adding machine in front of me to tell for sure, but that's not the way I recall it working. On an adding machine, addition and subtraction are not calculated until you hit the total (T) key. Multiplication and division are calculated when you hit the equals (=) key.

If you hit "1 + 2 * 3 =" you'd get 6 because didn't hit "+" or "T" after the equals

If you hit "1 + 2 * 3 = + T" you'd get 7.

To get 9, you would do "1 + 2 + T * 3 ="



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