[Kst] Equation parser - a possible BUG.
George Staikos
staikos at kde.org
Sat Nov 20 18:12:18 CET 2004
On Saturday 20 November 2004 12:00, Barth Netterfield wrote:
> He's right. The parser is wrong. '-' (and other unary operators?) should
> have the same precedence as multiplication (ie, below exponentiation). So
> we can interpret -x^2 as (-1)*x^2. The current parser interprets it as
> (-x)^2.
>
> see, eg,
> http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/53194.html
Yes, definitely a problem. I will investigate on Sunday night or Monday.
I'd like to write a unit or regression test for this first to try to make
sure no new problems are introduced.
> critcal bug, should be fixed for 1.0.
"must be"
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