Bug 671510 - GCalcTool does honor the precedence of operators
GCalcTool does honor the precedence of operators
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: gnome-calculator
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
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Assigned To: gcalctool maintainers
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Reported: 2012-03-07 00:11 UTC by Carlos Silva
Modified: 2012-03-07 00:28 UTC (History)
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Description Carlos Silva 2012-03-07 00:11:25 UTC 
I came across a bug where GCalcTool doesn't honor the precedence of the parentesis.
For example: "6/2(1+2)"
For the above example, the correct result is 1 and not 9.
The correct steps to resolve are:
6/2(1+2) = 6/2(3) = 6/6 = 1
or
6/2(1+2) = 6/(2+4) = 6/6 = 1

The way it is solving is:
6/2(1+2) = 6/2*3 = 3*3 = 9
Comment 1 Carlos Silva 2012-03-07 00:28:24 UTC 
My bad... wrong calculations done by me.
The way I was doing the original equation should be "6/(2(1+2))"
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