Re: Order of operations (was: Eigenvalues &/or eigenvectors, anyone?)
Re: Order of operations (was: Eigenvalues &/or eigenvectors, anyone?)
- Subject: Re: Order of operations (was: Eigenvalues &/or eigenvectors, anyone?)
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 11:22:58 -0700
On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 08:25 AM, Doug McNutt wrote:
I did file a bug report and it made it up the chain far enough to get
a number. The problem is that some professor in some computer science
department decided there was something called a "unary minus" operator
which is not a subtraction. Back when algebra was taught in high
school - remember that? - we learned that a leading minus sign implied
a preceding zero.
Actually, back in high school in the late 1950s, we were taught about
the unary minus, and -2^2 was +4. No one ever said anything about an
implied preceding zero.
--Michelle
--
"Beware the march of ideas."
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