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From: hoford@tamarac.upenn.edu (John Hoford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: My HP-48SX is in a WEIRD mode (at least to me! :-)
Keywords: Parenthesis around denominator
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Date: 8 Oct 90 16:00:22 GMT
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>I went to use my 48 today to do some homework, and I went to convert a
>number I just calculated on the stack to a fraction.  I hit
>[Orange][Eval], and I got a result like this: '20/(3)'.  What?  Why did
>it have ()'s in it?  I've never seen _that_ before.
>

It sounds like you have flag -53 (Precedence)  set.

John Hoford