• Swallowtail@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, you could easily make this more straightforward by putting parentheses around 8÷2. It’s like saying literature sucks because Finnegans Wake is incomprehensible.

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      8 months ago

      you could easily make this more straightforward by putting parentheses around 8÷2

      But that would be a different expression with a different answer (16 rather than 1). This is the mistake made by the programmer of the e-calc - treats it as though there’s extra brackets there when there isn’t.