[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1161670] Re: Order of operations is incorrect for exponents and parentheses

2016-10-05 Thread madbiologist
The gcalctool in Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" is a transitional package for the GNOME desktop calculator. In Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" and later, GNOME desktop calculator is called gnome-calculator. gnome- calculator 1:3.10.3-0ubuntu0.1.1 in Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" evaluates all of your

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1161670] Re: Order of operations is incorrect for exponents and parentheses

2016-10-05 Thread madbiologist
Upon further reading, it seems your third example is valid. One must use parentheses if the entire exponent is 2π, as in 3^(2pi), otherwise 3^2pi should evaluate to 9pi as you said. Also from the same further reading, using your second example, if not wanting to simply write/enter

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1161670] Re: Order of operations is incorrect for exponents and parentheses

2016-10-05 Thread madbiologist
AFAIK and IIRC, parentheses are not the equivalent of a multiplication symbol. It is simply mathematical conventiont to omit the multiplication symbol between two variables, between a constant and a variable, and between a constant or variable and an operator such as ( or Σ. Note that your first

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1161670] Re: Order of operations is incorrect for exponents and parentheses

2016-10-05 Thread madbiologist
Also see the first, second and fourth paragraphs of https://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gcalctool in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1161670 Title: