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Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence t


From: Randal L. Schwartz
Subject: Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:50:51 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix)

>>>>> "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman (gmail) <address@hidden> writes:

Lennart> More seriously: Where do you get those rules from? The notation

Lennart>   a b / c d

Lennart> does not look like a standard math notation.

You sound serious, or perhaps you've only seen math in the computer era.  What
do you get when you run:

a b \div c d

through LaTeX?  I can't type it in ASCII, but that's what I'm talking about.
And in ASCII, we wrote it like "a b / c d".

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