Re: Minitab Error

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From: John Wiorkowski
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 15:29

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     3/-4 is should have been written 3/(-4) to get the proper response.  I don
't consider that an error in Minitab but rather an error on the part of the
program user.  I'm surprised that Minitab didn't flag the statement as "poor"
i.e. possibly ambiguous.  As an old APL programmer I would have guessed the sta
tment to yield -.75, but the problem with APL and all such cavalier use of the
program features as opposed to well written formulae, is the fact that it becom
es hard to debug the program.  In short, write your statements using usual ma-
thematical notation and you will rarely have a problem.

                                                   John Wiorkowski
                                                   Professor of Statistics
                                                   Univ of Texas at Dallas

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