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bug#37235: 26.1; Precedence error in calc-eval
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#37235: 26.1; Precedence error in calc-eval |
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Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:07:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Aug 30 2019, Charles Karney via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army
knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> The precedence of calc-eval doesn't follow C-like rules.
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> (calc-eval "1/2*3") returns "0.166666666667"
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> returning the same answer as (calc-eval "1/2/3"). It should return
> "1.5".
It is documented that multiplication has higher precedence than
devision (see (calc) Formulas). Calc is following the rules of
Algebra.
Andreas.
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