This is why you have backups.
I decided to simply add to the description, "use parentheses to specify operator precedence."
Clearly a bug. Thanks when I have more time I will fix it. I didn't give much thought to operator precedence, I assumed the user would specify it using parentheses. The idea is what is important though. Recursive…
The calculator seems to miss the point of recursive descent parsing. The parser should follow naturally from the grammar. As an example, here is a 52 line python calculator: https://gist.github.com/ascv/5022712 The idea…
An analogous case is the programmer who relies on libraries and abstraction and "knows just enough to be dangerous." Statistics and optimization mathematics in particular are vulnerable to this. If you haven't read the…
Certainly it was the missing "the" in the title.
> Wikipedia is not designed to be a pedagogical repository; arguing that the mathematical language sucks because a terse summary in wikipedia is not enough to understand the material is missing the point. Nicely…
This is why you have backups.
I decided to simply add to the description, "use parentheses to specify operator precedence."
Clearly a bug. Thanks when I have more time I will fix it. I didn't give much thought to operator precedence, I assumed the user would specify it using parentheses. The idea is what is important though. Recursive…
The calculator seems to miss the point of recursive descent parsing. The parser should follow naturally from the grammar. As an example, here is a 52 line python calculator: https://gist.github.com/ascv/5022712 The idea…
An analogous case is the programmer who relies on libraries and abstraction and "knows just enough to be dangerous." Statistics and optimization mathematics in particular are vulnerable to this. If you haven't read the…
Certainly it was the missing "the" in the title.
> Wikipedia is not designed to be a pedagogical repository; arguing that the mathematical language sucks because a terse summary in wikipedia is not enough to understand the material is missing the point. Nicely…