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SmartmanApps@programming.dev 7 months agoA typical scientific calculator didn’t have juxtaposition, so you’d have to enter 6÷2(1+2) as 6÷2×(1+2)
That’s not true
you’d get 9 as the answer because ÷ and × have equal precedence and just go left to right
Well, more precisely you broke up the single term 2(1+2) into 2 terms - 2 and (1+2) - when you inserted the multiplication symbol, which sends the (1+2) from being in the denominator to being in the numerator. Terms are separated by operators and joined by grouping symbols.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 7 months ago
I’m not sure what you’re getting at with your source. I’m taking about physical, non-graphic scientific calculators from the 1990s.
SmartmanApps@programming.dev 7 months ago
Yep, exact same as the calculator in the linked thread. The expression entered was 6/2(1+2).