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To: RBranha
I tried several online algebra calculators.

With / I got 288, but when I used ÷, I got 2.

459 posted on 04/12/2011 9:25:56 PM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: CharacterCounts

I’d like to see the algorithm used by the online calculators to parse the problem text. To give different answers, they have to be parsing the text differently. Most likely they’re doing something like

48/2(9+3) => 48/2*(9+3)
and
48÷2(9+3) => 48/(2*(9+3))

The expressions after the => can be calculated directly in the languages used to build the sites.


460 posted on 04/12/2011 9:33:40 PM PDT by RBranha (Captialism is the natural outgrowth of human freedom.)
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