Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 06:26:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1014517286.925557@mired.org> Cc: "D. Michael McFarland" <dmmcf@uiuc.edu>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility Message-ID: <20020219062359.Q7320-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <15473.46758.516892.756570@guru.mired.org>
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Mike Meyer wrote: > D. Michael McFarland <dmmcf@uiuc.edu> types: > > Word and PowerPoint are necessities, unless I refuse to even pretend > > to MS Office compatibility. No one is yet asking me to use Exel. > > (Does it still claim -1^2 == +1?) > > I don't know, but the bc provided with FreeBSD does: > > guru% bc > bc 1.06 > Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > For details type `warranty'. > -1^2 > 1 > > Because of ambiguities in common mathematical notation, There is no ambiguity in (in this) mathematical notation. -1^2 = -1 (-1)^2 = +1 > there's at > least one parsing for which it's the right answer. So these parsings are wrong. Regards Uli. *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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