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   by coolSCV 14y ago

   This is why you have backups.
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   by coolSCV 14y ago

   I decided to simply add to the description, "use parentheses to specify operator precedence."
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   by coolSCV 14y ago

   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 descent parsing uses the fu
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   by coolSCV 14y ago

   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 isn't to 1-up the
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   by coolSCV 14y ago

   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 proofs or you cannot
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   by coolSCV 14y ago

   Certainly it was the missing "the" in the title.
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   by coolSCV 14y ago

   > 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 worded. I think the real