From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In CVS Emacs, calc-eval gives multiplication higher precidence than division Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:42:31 +0200 Message-ID: <48C43CB7.4060505@gmail.com> References: <878wu3j4k2.fsf@gmail.com> <86wshn3df0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <48C43ADA.1070001@gmail.com> <86sksb3d53.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220820221 27218 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2008 20:43:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 20:43:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Randal L. Schwartz" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 07 22:44:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KcR7b-0007mv-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:44:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52309 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcR6b-0007Fw-RQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcR5j-0006n0-Kf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:42:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcR5h-0006k0-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47555 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcR5h-0006jm-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:42:37 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:38301) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KcR5h-0003fj-54 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:42:37 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:64593 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KcR5f-00037C-3t; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:42:35 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <86sksb3d53.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080907-0, 2008-09-07), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KcR5f-00037C-3t. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KcR5f-00037C-3t defa8a9d89f3c2456025aab836b7d863 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103650 Archived-At: Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman (gmail) writes: > >>> Admittedly, if you're a computer-science guy and not a math guy, this might >>> seem initially odd. > > Lennart> It is really odd if you happen to know math. > > Really? > > You parse > > a b / c d > > as ((a * b) / c) * d ? > > That's not what I was taught in algebra. Have the rules changed? No, I do not think they have. But maybe your teacher is on another job now ... ;-) More seriously: Where do you get those rules from? The notation a b / c d does not look like a standard math notation.