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submitted 1 year ago by Toes@ani.social to c/196

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[-] Swallowtail@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you could easily make this more straightforward by putting parentheses around 8÷2. It's like saying literature sucks because Finnegans Wake is incomprehensible.

[-] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

you could easily make this more straightforward by putting parentheses around 8÷2

But that would be a different expression with a different answer (16 rather than 1). This is the mistake made by the programmer of the e-calc - treats it as though there's extra brackets there when there isn't.