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To: SoothingDave

Since my math learning predates the computer age, I was taught that “÷” and “/” were exact equivalents. This apparently is not the case any longer. My ninth grade algebra teacher would have evaluated the expression and got 2 for the answer. Today, the correct answer appears to be 288. As I said before, even the online calculators I used provided different results when the the different operators were used.


485 posted on 04/13/2011 5:12:00 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: CharacterCounts

I would consider them to be the same, but apparently some calculators allow people to enter fractions using “/” as the divider.

No programming language I have ever used does this. “/” is simply the division operator.


489 posted on 04/13/2011 5:21:28 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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