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[-] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago

A typical scientific calculator didn’t have juxtaposition, so you’d have to enter 6÷2(1+2) as 6÷2×(1+2)

That's not true

you’d get 9 as the answer because ÷ and × have equal precedence and just go left to right

Well, more precisely you broke up the single term 2(1+2) into 2 terms - 2 and (1+2) - when you inserted the multiplication symbol, which sends the (1+2) from being in the denominator to being in the numerator. Terms are separated by operators and joined by grouping symbols.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 7 months ago

I'm not sure what you're getting at with your source. I'm taking about physical, non-graphic scientific calculators from the 1990s.

[-] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’m taking about physical, non-graphic scientific calculators from the 1990s.

Yep, exact same as the calculator in the linked thread. The expression entered was 6÷2(1+2).

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