Sunday, April 1, 2012

Not so funny results from Casio Calculators

Look at this! (from 9gag)




This is inconsistent behavior and in the first place illustrates the danger of blindly entering formulas via keystrokes. Avoid implied multiplication or division! There should be an explicit asterisk or slash symbol and one must be sure that the calculator obeys MDAS(My Dear Aunt Sally) order of computation.


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