In article <3a80db3a$1@news.povray.org> , "Mark Wagner" 
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

> I just typed the expression 1+2*3-4 into my TI-1795 calculator, and, as
> expected, got the number 5.

Yes, because you did not calculate the above!  What you calculated* was :

1+2=3

3*3=9

9-4=5

Obviously this cannot be the same as 1+2*3-4.


     Thorsten


* Your calculator manual will of course explain this exactly the same way.
However, most newer caclulators (and many expensive older ones) support
calculations in mathematical order (or whatever this is called).

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