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Originally Posted by Burning Down
Same here, and I have a graphing calculator that cost me over $150. I'm hoping it's not spitting out crap.
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Originally Posted by oojay
When I plug it into both my Texas Instruments and Casio scientific calculators (the entire equation as it is written, not part by part) they both give me the same answer: 1.
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I have a Texas Instruments too (a graphing one) and it gave me nine. Even our calculators are different...
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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
...because the equation is ambiguous. I've been saying this for four pages :P
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I suppose if you were to look at the equation with all different orders in mind, it would be ambiguous. When you pick just one, it has a clearly defined answer. As it's presented, without any extra parentheses, the only way to solve it is to use an order of operations. So that's what I did.