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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Ooh I love brackets

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

$((A+B))

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Gotta use Lisp notation to be sure

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or, you know, you could simplify the terms?

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[–] SmartmanApps 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately some calculators, such as Google's will ignore your brackets and put in their own anyway. You just gotta find a decent calculator in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is also frustrating when different calculators have different orders of operations and dont tell you.

[–] SmartmanApps 3 points 7 months ago

It is also frustrating when different calculators have different orders of operations and dont tell you.

Yeah, but to be fair most of them do tell you the order of operations they use, they just bury it in a million lines of text about it. If they could all just check with some Maths teachers/textbooks first then it wouldn't be necessary. Instead we're left trying to work out which ones are right and which ones aren't. Any calculator that gives you an option to switch on/off "implicit multiplication", then just run as fast as you can the other way! :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

(> (explicit) (implicit))

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

My calculator uses a stack instead of brackets. #RPN4Life

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Is the title a Requiem for a Dream reference?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

me using sbcl for everything

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