Seems to depend what calculator you have. Some do (good ones) and some don't
(ones you get free from a petrol station for example).
Brad
> I thought calculators were supposed to process input
> linearly, and not in
> mathematical order. They keep a running subtotal. On any
> calculator I have
> ever used 8+2*4 is processed as 8 + 2 = 10. That times 4 = 40.
>
> Loren
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