> From: Rob Studdert <[email protected]> >> > On 9 April 2013 06:30, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity, what real life problem does that equation relate to? >> >> It's been long enough since I'd done school-book math that I had to >> Google "order of operations" to be sure I got the answer right. > > Not trying to harp on but given the results from that thread most > people couldn't even manage a simple temperature conversion ie: > > F = 32 + 9 / 5 x C
Hi Rob, (and John) You and I often see things in the same way. However the question/problem seems rather academic. I haven't needed to or tried to remember the order of operations much past high school. At 52 years old, I see the implicit wisdom in using parentheses to denote the proper order. Why leave the correct solution to chance when one could explicitly specify it? Is it really too hard to do so? Especially if one desires the correct result? Even in programming, I don't take shortcuts when some languages allow an implicit variable length of 1. Specificity is preferred to ambiguity, IMO. My 2/1 cents worth. Tom -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
