Garrulous Glaahk Venom Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Originally Posted By: The Mystic It interpreted the expression this way: Code: 48÷(2*(9+3)) By doing the division last, the final operation becomes 48÷24, which equals 2. Ok, I see. Why would the calculator do that? What logic adds parentheses when no operator is specified but then leaves them out when it is? EDIT: This kind of answers my question. Missed his reply earlier. Originally Posted By: Crisis on Infinite Slarties I'd guess that the division operator shown above is set to only accept a single term as the divisor. It is odd that it doesn't use the regular / and * symbols for those operations, and it makes me wonder if the symbols it is using represent non-standard implementations of those operators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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