Path: utzoo!attcan!ontmoh!peter
From: peter@ontmoh.UUCP (Peter Renzland)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Equation solver
Message-ID: <650089390.15798@ontmoh.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 90 04:23:10 GMT
References: <1990Aug7.183727.16237@uwasa.fi>
Organization: Ontario Ministry of Health -- Decision Support, Toronto, Canada
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From article <1990Aug7.183727.16237@uwasa.fi>, by ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK):
> In article <1990Aug6.184606.4634@stretch.cs.mun.ca> tony4@stretch.cs.mun.ca (Anthony H. Galway) writes:
>>I am in need of a program that will allow a student to enter an equation
>>in the form 
>>
>>	>  b = 5
>>	>  s = 90 
>>	>  w = 12
>>	>  x = b^2 + (s^3/w)
>>
>>The program needs to be able to do all basic math functions.
>>	* / - + sin() cos() tan() atan() acos() asin() log() sqrt() etc...
> ... rest deleted ...

If you have a Unix system, it's easy -- just use the "bc" calculator.
If you feed it the above example and then say "w", it will say "60775".