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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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