Why is there not a Square Root button in calc.exe?

Re:Why is there not a Square Root button in calc.exe? by andrerobot on Saturday August 21, 2010 @05:32PM (#1623708)

I've used cheap scientific calculators that perform operations from left to right. It's awful when you are answering a uni exam and you don't know why the results you get looks fishy.

On computer calculators, I always type "1 + 2 * 3 =" as "2 * 3 =", "+ 1 =" because I learned the hard way that I can't asume that a calculator is going to respect order of precedence or not.

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Re:Why is there not a Square Root button in calc.exe? by sprout on Saturday August 21, 2010 @05:42PM (#1623720)

I think the first calculator I used was one of those. It took me till college and programming before I really properly learned precedence because I never trusted any calculator I was using, and always used parentheses.

This also kind of influences my programming, probably for the better - I would rather use parens and be clear than be ambiguous and trust that my interpreter and I agree on what has proper precedence.

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