On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:10:32 +0100 Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sums? But sums (along with differences) often do > need parentheses, of course: it's products and quotients that often > don't. You're right, my bad; I meant around parts of formulas, calculations, expressions or whatever you want to call them, depending on context. > "Sometimes differing"?! Is this the new mathematics? ;^) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations lists a couple of exception cases. I recall coming across differing orders between two programming languages in the past, although to be honest I can't remember where. It does seem to be unusual corner cases, but it's worth noting that those corners could be very sharp indeed. > Chacun à son goût, of course. Exactly. Paul -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
