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coolSCV

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  1. comment
    Comment #5296545

    This is why you have backups.

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    Comment #5273825

    I decided to simply add to the description, "use parentheses to specify operator precedence."

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    Comment #5273759

    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 wha…

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    Comment #5273081

    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:…

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    Comment #5191162

    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 vulne…

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    Comment #4918071

    Certainly it was the missing "the" in the title.

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    Comment #4890281

    > 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 materi…