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Re: Another question about Calc


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: Another question about Calc
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:39:57 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> AFAIK LaTeX doesn't calculate at all.  I don't see any evidence that it
> treats `A + B / C` as having any kind of internal structure.

AFAIR it has macros to perform calculations, but then the input is not
given as latex formatted formula.

> > Is this behavior expected?  Does it make sense in some way?
>
> I think the fact that the syntax is inspired by LaTeX doesn't give
> us much guidance on how precedence should be handled.
>
> So from where I stand, this looks like a bug.

That's what I think, too.  I'll create a report.

Thanks,

Michael




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