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bug#934: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence
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Randal L. Schwartz |
Subject: |
bug#934: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:43:16 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) |
>>>>> "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman (gmail) <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
Lennart> Of course I can see that the behaviour you want saves you a lot of key
Lennart> strokes. My question is really about the default value. You can easily
Lennart> change that, of course. The question is really if you prefer the old
Lennart> default and in that case what arguments you want to present for that.
There's no need to change the longstanding defaults, because it would break
things. You already have a knob you can tweak if you think that "2 a / 3 b"
should multiply by b, rather than divide by it. That's a personal choice.
Frankly, I'd never touch that knob, because it looks to me like it should
divide by b. And I think most mathemeticians would agree, and that's the
target for that part of Calc. Stop thinking computer science. Think
*math* notation.
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- bug#918: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, (continued)
- bug#918: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Francis Litterio, 2008/09/07
- bug#920: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/07
- bug#920: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/07
- bug#921: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Jay Belanger, 2008/09/07
- bug#923: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/07
- bug#924: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/07
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- bug#928: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Carsten Dominik, 2008/09/08
- bug#929: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Lennart Borgman, 2008/09/08
- bug#932: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Carsten Dominik, 2008/09/08
- bug#933: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/08
- bug#934: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division,
Randal L. Schwartz <=
- bug#914: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/08
- bug#937: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/08
- bug#941: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/09
- bug#944: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/09
- bug#930: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/08