Sure wish you could add 1 + 1 with any consistency.

CIAO

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"Doug Miller" wrote in message =
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| "Robert Bonomi" wrote in message =3D
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| | In article ,
| | PDQ wrote:
| | This is more fun that actually applying myself to wood.
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| | Have you never given any thought to the order of qualification =3D
| inherent
| | in the utilization of "of"?
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| | Repeating (since you failed to address it last time):
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| | Tell me, just how would you express _in_words_, "root(2) * =3D
| (width*width)"
| | then?
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| Just for you: root two times width squared.
| No "of", just processing.=3D20
| 1) do what's left of the "times"
| 2) do what's right of the "times"
| 3) multiply the two results together.
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| Trouble is, that's *not* what "root two times width squared" means. =
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| of operators, remember? Exponentiation *and* root extraction (which is =

| simply exponentiation with a fractional exponent) are higher-priority=20
| operations than multiplication, and therefore "root two times width =
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| means (the square root of two) times (the width squared).
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| Seems you're having trouble grasping the concept, so let's try a =
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| example: solve "four plus three times five".
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| Do you get thirty-five, or nineteen?
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| Regards,
| Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
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| Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his =
butt.
| And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?