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Excel Math Bug
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"Stephen J. Herschkorn" wrote: Ask any semi-decent high school student to draw a graph of y = -x^2, and what will you get? If you asked someone competent, not just semi-decent, from my high school, or college, or graduate school, you'd get the same curve as y = x^2 but it's a convention, not a law, so it wouldn't be surprising to see the negation of y = x^2 The flaw is in assuming that you have a lock on absolute truth, rather than recognizing that when there's ambiguity you need context. There's no ambiguity that negation and subtraction are different. The fact that the typography is ambiguous means that you need to check your assumptions. Those who insist that a computer application must conform to *their* standard have never programmed in APL. |
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