>>>>it's simple
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>>>>Algebra: -4
>>>>Computer : 4
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>>>what about lotus 1-2-3? I'm sure fortran is -4 too. Because Fortran was an engineering language...
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>>If you look further into the documentation, most languages state their own order of operations and what the developer or user should do to force the standard order of operations in mathematics.
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>They're based on math. rules. I think so it's a bug.
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>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q132686/

I agree, and that was the point I was trying to make. If you want to follow the correct order of operations, you have to manipulate the way you write the formula so the computer language computes it correctly since the computer language does not obey the mathematical rule.

Right now my daughter is preparing for her SATs and she is also taking Advanced Functions at school in that endeavor. She has worksheets reviewing just about everything possible from math, algebra, geometry, calculus, and trigonomety.