Re: Minitab Error

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From: Jerry Dallal
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 18:25

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In article <93Jun29.103942cdt.74288@utdallas.edu>, John Wiorkowski <wiorkow@UTDALLAS.EDU> writes:
>      3/-4 is should have been written 3/(-4) to get the proper response.  
>     As an old APL programmer I would have guessed the statment to yield -.75

As an older APL programmer, I would have guessed ^4 ^4 ^4,
where ^indicates a negative number.  :-)

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