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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
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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.

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