order of math operations

[amezcackle]

Is there a reason why designer performs multiplication before exponents in it's math operations? For example, an equation entered like this:

2 * 2 ^ 2

is rendered like this for a result of 16:

(2 * 2) ^ 2

Is it not usually performed like this for a result of 8?:

2 * (2 ^ 2)

Mike

[franji1]

^ is XOR, not raised to power.  Do-more uses C/C++/C#/java syntax in its MATH expressions, so ^ is XOR.

However, those languages do not have a raised-to-power operator, so we stole one from the old BASIC language, ** (two asterisks).

So try 2 * 2 ** 2.  You will see the automagic placement of the parentheses as you expected:  2 * (2 ** 2)

[amezcackle]

^ is XOR, not raised to power.  Do-more uses C/C++/C#/java syntax in its MATH expressions, so ^ is XOR.

However, those languages do not have a raised-to-power operator, so we stole one from the old BASIC language, ** (two asterisks).

So try 2 * 2 ** 2.  You will see the automagic placement of the parentheses as you expected:  2 * (2 ** 2)

Thanks, that's helpful.

Mike

[Mike Nash]

So I had to check. I found (2*2)^2 is actually 6 in the Do-more, since in binary:

(010*010) XOR 010 = 100 XOR 010 = 110

which is 6 in decimal.

(I also noted * and ^ are easy to misread at 85% zoom in the ladder.)

[franji1]

which is 6 in decimal

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