Re: Math expression evaluation error?

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 10,  2:21pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
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} BTW, just Googling, I see that this issue has come up time and again.
} Our original poster on this thread is not the first person to be got by
} this gotcha.  Why not make the issue go away, once and for all?

Because there is such a thing as standardized behavior across shells,
and while it is fine to add or extend features, egregiously changing
the behavior of the common subset is generally a bad idea.

} I also presume that it accesses all the power of 'zcalc' (because why 
} *wouldn't* it?)

It's actually the other way around.  zcalc accesses the power of $(( ))
but "looks" a bit more like a calculator.

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Barton E. Schaefer