[meyer]

Page 3 is especially enlightening as to why the user should read the owners manual when using a calculator.

Example 6, in particular, shows that there's two kinds of people in this world, TI-85 (old) and TI-86 (young). Whereas they show the results of TI-86 to be "as expected", I would have expected the results of TI-85 myself. Guess I'm getting old!

:-)

[jwalsh07]

I'm about 5 months shy of 60 Meyer. But I tutor my grandkids in Math because their math teachers suck and as luck would have it we just covered orders of operations. :-}

I'm also an engineer who used the TI-85 nearly 20 years ago so I know how the orders work in that calculator which is not consistent with almost all programming languages and newer generation calculators most of which listen to Auntie BEDMAS.

Here's to old guys!