Different answer with reverse polish notation... On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 April 2013 06:30, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity, what real life problem does that equation relate to? > > In solving electronics engineering problems this sort of combination > of operators wouldn't be that uncommon. > >> It's been long enough since I'd done school-book math that I had to >> Google "order of operations" to be sure I got the answer right. > > After watching that FB thread I feel that I'm in a privileged position > that my secondary schooling left me with an indelible memory of order > of operations (and we had no swanky acronyms, we just had to remember > it like times tables) plus I can solve trig problems so long as I have > a table or calculator handy and logs are no mystery. I can't help > thinking that if order of operations in second class mechanical maths > is a problem what change would anyone have had with basic algebra? > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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