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From: eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: My HP-48SX is in a WEIRD mode (at least to me! :-)
Summary: Division key still returns '/()'
Keywords: Parenthesis around denominator in fractions, too!
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.184348.5129@jafus.mi.org>
Date: 8 Oct 90 18:43:48 GMT
References: <1990Oct8.022002.3894@jafus.mi.org> <30746@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: Eccentricity Technologies - East Lansing, MI
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In article <30746@netnews.upenn.edu> hoford@tamarac.upenn.edu (John Hoford) writes:
>
>>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

Well, I just tried flag -53 both set and cleared (it was cleared, BTW),
and when I press the division key while entering an equation, it still 
returns '/()' instead of the [expected] '/'.

E.J.G.
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