From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: 37235@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: charles.karney@sri.com
Subject: bug#37235: 26.1; Precedence error in calc-eval
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:07:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef124rqb.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <857abb8d-8da0-82b2-d50d-01d57b4be681@sri.com> (Charles Karney via's message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:41:32 +0000")
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.
>
> (calc-eval "1/2*3") returns "0.166666666667"
>
> 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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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-30 13:41 bug#37235: 26.1; Precedence error in calc-eval Charles Karney via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2019-08-30 15:04 ` Mauro Aranda
2019-08-30 15:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-16 3:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-30 15:07 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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