From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@kph.uni-mainz.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Subject: Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:07:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C4CF21.3000204@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18628.51359.140430.875479@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de>
Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 07 Sep 2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>
>> If some algebra books use "simplified notation" the best thing to do
>> might be to burn them.
>
> Lennart,
>
> could you please leave such polemic out of the discussion? I find the
> suggestion to burn books to be in very bad taste.
Ok, sorry, but this is not about politics or similar things where I
would never write such things.
I am just very tired of different notations that just makes it harder
for some people to learn.
It is a bit frightened that pupils on the introductory courses at
university level do not know these precedence rules. (Though I would not
mind if they were not reading math.)
> Also, the topic has been discussed in ample length before:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00557.html
Thanks. I found these two worth reading:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00654.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00905.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-07 16:06 In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division Francis Litterio
2008-09-07 16:37 ` Jay Belanger
2008-09-07 18:15 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-07 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 20:19 ` bug#920: " Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 20:32 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-07 20:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 20:38 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-07 20:42 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 20:50 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-07 21:07 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-08 6:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-09-08 7:07 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-09-07 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 23:30 ` Jay Belanger
2008-09-08 0:50 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-08 1:13 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-08 3:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 8:48 ` Miles Bader
2008-09-08 12:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 13:29 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-08 7:26 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 10:30 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-09-08 11:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-09-08 20:33 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-09-08 20:39 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-08 20:43 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-09-08 20:53 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-08 22:59 ` bug#914: " Jay Belanger
2008-09-08 23:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-09 13:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-09 14:36 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-09 16:26 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-09-09 16:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-30 4:10 ` Leo
2008-09-08 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-09 8:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-09 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-09 17:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-09 17:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 20:35 ` Jay Belanger
2008-09-07 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 21:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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