* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Vincent Lefevre quotation: > > > In fact, you don't need parentheses for sumple expressions like the > > above one: > > > > 1+2*3= gives 7 > > 1+2=*3= gives 9 > > Fair enough. So perhaps the distinction is whether or not the calculator > is designed to automatically provide a running total.
Heh. Mine gives an error 1+2* ^--- here -- an interesting way of solving precedence problem. There's an M+ key if you want to keep a running total. Ohterwise you have to pop the result off the stack after every operation. Quite reasonable, if you think about it. It's a canon f 402. Dima -- "Mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of entities." -- corollary to Occam's Razor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]