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: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 08:32:11 +0100
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a16
At 11:26 am -0700 8/5/03, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 09:57 AM, Michael Kelly wrote:
This is interesting. It makes sense now that I think about it, but -2^2
= 4 is still completely unintuitive, and is just asking for problems.
It is intuitive to me. I read it as "minus-two to the second," not
"minus two-to-the-second."
Me too. And if I put =-2^2 in an Excel cell, I get 4. I can't
imagine it doing anything else. I'm no higher mathematician and I
can't event pretend to understand precedence fully, but the rules for
this must be hundreds of years old, surely?
JD
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